Queer Opera
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Queer Opera
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Author : Andrew Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-03-27
Queer Opera written by Andrew Sutherland and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-27 with Music categories.
In Queer Opera, Andrew Sutherland argues that operas often reflect characteristics of the society and epistime in which they are written but that they also do much more than that; operas have agency. LGBTQ+ social, cultural, and political issues have become an increasingly defining feature of twenty-first century life, and as agency for change, composers have turned to opera to underscore the lived queer experience. Sutherland posits that operas written before the sexual revolution of the mid-twentieth century utilized a codified language both in the libretto and score, communicating with those observers open to a queer reading. He explores the growing trend of local, small-scale, independent opera companies seen around the world towards the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century and argues that this has emboldened queer artists to reclaim opera as a queer space. He further argues that for several centuries, opera houses have been safe havens for queer composers, librettists, performers, and designers, and yet it is only relatively recently that any serious attempt at queer representation in operatic works has begun to be realized. In this book, he examines narratives and music of selected operas to walk through queer history in Western societies and shines a light on how many of opera’s well-known characters, based on historical figures who represent pivotal moments in the queer story, are responsible in a variety of ways for the continued struggle for queer acceptance.
The Queen S Throat
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Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1994
The Queen S Throat written by Wayne Koestenbaum and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This innovative, profound, and wildly playful book reveals the ways in which opera has served as a source of gay identity and gay personal style. The result is a learned, moving, and often very funny work of critical insight, subversion, and homage.
Opera In The Flesh
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Author : Sam Abel
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1996-05-09
Opera In The Flesh written by Sam Abel and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-09 with Health & Fitness categories.
Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this book sprung by one man's physical response to opera. The author considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body, examining homoerotic desire, the phenomenon of the castrati, operatic cross-dressing, and opera as presented through the media.
Queer Episodes In Music And Modern Identity
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Author : Sophie Fuller
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2002
Queer Episodes In Music And Modern Identity written by Sophie Fuller and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Gay musicians categories.
Through the hidden or lost Stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoire, venues, and specific works, this volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950 - a period during which dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
The Work Of Opera
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Author : Richard Dellamora
language : en
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1997
The Work Of Opera written by Richard Dellamora and has been published by New York : Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Music categories.
In this collection of essays, literary and cultural critics, musicologists and queer theorists explore the way opera shapes national character through its representations of gender, sexuality and class.
The Queer Encyclopedia Of Music Dance And Musical Theater
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Author : Claude Summers
language : en
Publisher: Cleis Press Start
Release Date : 2012-04-24
The Queer Encyclopedia Of Music Dance And Musical Theater written by Claude Summers and has been published by Cleis Press Start this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Performing Arts categories.
Aficionados of music, dance, opera, and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles. Read about Hildegard of Bingen, whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire for the Virgin Mary, and George Frideric Handel, who not only created roles for castrati but was behind the Venetian opera's preoccupations with gender ambiguity. Discover Alban Berg’s Lulu, opera’s first openly lesbian character. And don’t forget Kiss Me Kate, the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter, married though openly gay; directed by John C. Wilson, Noël Coward's ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang, who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal. No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly yet eminently readable compendium. It includes overviews of genres as well as fascinating biographical entries on hundreds of figures such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Diaghilev, Bessie Smith, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Alvin Ailey, Rufus Wainwright, and Ani DiFranco.
Murder Most Queer
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Author : Jordan Schildcrout
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014-10-09
Murder Most Queer written by Jordan Schildcrout and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Drama categories.
The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy. Murder Most Queer works to expose the forces that create the homophobic paradigm that imagines sexual and gender nonconformity as dangerous and destructive and to show how theater artists—and for the most part LGBT theater artists—have rewritten and radically altered the significance of the homicidal homosexual. Jordan Schildcrout argues that these figures, far from being simple reiterations of a homophobic archetype, are complex and challenging characters who enact trenchant fantasies of empowerment, replacing the shame and stigma of the abject with the defiance and freedom of the outlaw, giving voice to rage and resistance. These bold characters also probe the darker anxieties and fears that can affect queer lives and relationships. Instead of sentencing them to the prison of negative representations, this book analyzes the meanings in their acts of murder, confronting the real fears and desires condensed in those dramatic acts.
The Queer Composition Of America S Sound
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Author : Nadine Hubbs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-10-18
The Queer Composition Of America S Sound written by Nadine Hubbs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-18 with Music categories.
In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.
Queer Street Rise And Fall Of An American Culture 1947 1985
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Author : James McCourt
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005-01-17
Queer Street Rise And Fall Of An American Culture 1947 1985 written by James McCourt and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-17 with Social Science categories.
"A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."—New York Times Book Review A fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York has found a sophisticated bard singing 'the elders' history' (The New York Times). James McCourt's seminal Queer Street has proven unrivaled in its ability to capture the voices of a mad, bygone era. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barreling through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the era of the floodtide of AIDS, McCourt positions his own exhilarating experience against the whirlwind history of the era. The result is a commanding and persuasive interlocking of personal, intellectual, and social history that will be read, dissected, and honored as the masterpiece it is for decades to come. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2003; a Lambda Award finalist.
Routledge International Encyclopedia Of Queer Culture
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Author : David A. Gerstner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-03-01
Routledge International Encyclopedia Of Queer Culture written by David A. Gerstner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with Reference categories.
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Int