Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263), discography (p. 265), and index.
Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. Composing oneself (reprise).
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Music--History and criticism.--United States--20th century Modernism (Music)--United States. National music--History and criticism.--United States Gay composers--United States.