The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness (Oxford Handbooks)

Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate. Halftitle page Title Page Copyright page Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Queerness Music Queer Music Studies Begins Queer Music Studies Today A Handbook Rhetorics of Music and Queerness Kinds of Music Versions Voices and Sounds Lives Histories Cross-cultural Queerness Part I Kinds of Music 2. Whose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance Music Histories Counterhistories Fetishizing Other Utopias 3. The Queer Pleasures of Musicals 4. The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel Music 5. Queer as Trad: LGBTQ+ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States Introduction Coming Out (Homo)normativities and Family Tensions Music + Sexuality = ? Conclusion 6. Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer Sincerity 7. Queer Hip Hop: A Brief Historiography The Queer Aughts Locating Queerness, Locating Hip Hop Queer Negation, Queer Presence: Or, What Do We Mean When We Say “Black”? Hip Hop Fairies and Punks: “Rapper’s Delight” and Age of Consent Age of Consent The Golden Age of Queer Hip Hop Homohop, Queer Hip Hop, the Gay ’90s Rainbow Flava: The Birth of the HomoHop Movement Black Queer Masculinities: D/DC’s Intersections Hanifah Walidah: The Renaissance Artist A Queer Hip Hop Future Part II Versions 8. From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the Bible Ned Rorem_ Mourning Scene Diamanda Galas: Plague Mass Georgia Harkness: Mainstream Protestant Liberalism Carter Heyward: Mutual Relation and the Erotic Marcella Althaus-Reid: Indecent Theology Conclusion 9. Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative Sexualities Carmens Deaths in Venice 10. Queer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad Girls Introduction Part I: The Herstory of Vidding Interlude I: Vidding and Queerness Interlude II: Fast Forward: VCRs, Digital Video, and Femslash Part II: Finding the Music in Digital Vids: “Who the hell are Nikki and Helen?” How to Listen to a Fanvid 11. Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban Muñoz Part III Voices and Sounds 12. Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello’s Butch Voice 13. Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality Introduction Part 1: Elements of Vocal Gender Performance Part 2: Gendered Vocalisms in Practice Conclusion 14. Sound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of Music Aural stimulation Sound, Seduction, and Sexualities Theorizing Sex and the Fetish Fetishizing Sound and Music Practicing Aural Sex The Queer Ear 15. Transcripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field Recording Transcript 1 Transcript 2 Afterword: On Phenomenology Part IV Lives 16. Queering Brighton A Brief History Interlude One Queer Imaginings Interlude Two A Contemporary Snapshot: Brighton and Hove’s Alternative Scene and Brighton Pride 17. (To) Queer: “A” Life to Music “Why Are Feminists So Angry?” A Life 18. Endangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann A Moment of Self-Discovery Schubert’s “Fremdlinge” An Alien World: Schubert’s Last Two String Quartets Schubert’s Elysian Quests Chopin’s Ambivalence Can It Be a Waltz? Chopin’s “Duets” Exploring the Extremes in Schumann’s Kreisleriana Queer—or Not? 19. Musical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDS Charles: From Red to Blue Colin: Singing Life Alfredo: Running into Music Eddie: The Blue Guitar Coda 20. Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology The Transsexual Woman at the Piano Ephemeral Performance and Enduring Bodies Musical and Sexual Materials Materiality and Fluidity Together Future Directions 21. Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra’s Space Is the Place Afrofuturism_ Genealogical Notes Afro American to Alien, Slaveship to Spaceship Black Atlantic, Beyond Nation The Subversion of the Black Entertainer Duel with the Overseer: Against the Black Macho Quaring the Community: Beyond Black Authenticity Dixie Music: Bound to the Past? The Present is not Enough: Futures of the Quare Performative The Arkestra: Sonic Ecstasy Collective Improvisation Quare Assemblage Production A Note on Editing 22. Musical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable Sexualities Part V Histories 23. Music in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200–1500 What was Queer in the Middle Ages? Musical Queerness and Transgression Queering the Musical Body: Sensual and Musical Pleasures in Marginalia Clerical Masculinities 24. The Queer History of the Castrato First: A Definition Second: The Castrato’s Queer History Third: The Historical Queerness of the Castrato 25. Queering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US Theater European Antecedents of US Female Impersonation European Antecedents of US Male Impersonation Trangressive Female Performance in the United States Twentieth-Century Decline of Cross Dressing in US Entertainment 26. Anglophone Songs about HIV/AIDS Introduction Uses of Extant Music in the Context of AIDS Elegies Protest Songs Pedagogical Songs Confessional Songs Songs in Bad Taste Conclusion: Hearing AIDS 27. Queer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song Contest Part VI Cross-cultural Queerness 28. Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer Ethnomusicology Guidelines for Ethnomusicological Enqueery Enqueering Performance in South Asia: History and Context Hijra Performance Mahaprasad Conclusion 29. Kunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer Performance Kunqu Cross-dressing in Contemporary China Historicizing Kunqu Cross-dressing Theorizing Kunqu Cross-dressing Queering Kunqu Cross-dressing Performance Concluding Remarks 30. Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Performance Indonesian Performances in the Western Imaginary Indonesian Performances Involving Nonnormative Gender Roles and Sexualities Ritual Specialists Theatrical Gender-Bending Modern Gender Subjectivities and Performance Conclusions 31. Out in the Undercurrents Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular Music Introduction On Tongzhi and Ku’er On the Year of Coming Out After the Surprise 32. How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural “Transcription,” “Queerness,” and Ukrainian Pop Iconoclastic, Cornflake-Loving Aliens: Kamon!!!’s Audiovisual Product-Practice Sameness, Difference, and the Hegemony of “Transcription” Identity, Star Date 2016 Index Part I. Kinds of Music. Whose Refuge, This House? : The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance Music / Luis-Manuel Garcia Mispireta ; The Queer Pleasures of Musicals / Bradley Rogers ; The Gospel According to the Gays : Queering the Roots of Gospel Music / E. Patrick Johnson ; Queer as Trad : LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States / Tes Slominski ; Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer Sincerity / Shana Goldin-Perschbacher ; Queer Hip Hop : A Brief Historiography / Shante Paradigm Smalls -- Part II. Versions. From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology : Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the Bible / Dirk von der Horst ; Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative Sexualities / Freya Jarman ; Queer Audiovisual Creativity : Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad Girls / Nina Treadwell ; Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance : Dedicated to José Esteban Muñoz / Karen Tongson -- Part III. Voices and Sounds. Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello's Butch Voice / Tavia Nyong'o ; Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality / Stephan Pennington ; Sound Desires : Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of Music / Jodie Taylor ; Transcripts : Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field Recording / Drew Daniel "In the 1990s, academic study of LGBTQ issues in relation to music centered on classical music, and the research topics and researchers were mostly white. The scope of the field has expanded greatly since then, with ongoing research on classical music, extensive work on white popular music, a growing literature on Black music, and recent initiatives in ethnomusicology. The term "queer" has risen as a welcome intention of inclusiveness, along with some complexity in its meanings. In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness, contributors choose their relationship to the term as it relates to their work within and without the academic community. Offering a decisive departure from a Western- and Eurocentric approach to music, this Handbook reflects different rhetorics of queer musicology. Chapters look at music and queer experience across a range of venues and approaches, from gospel to electronic dance music; from Hong Kong public music to Ukrainian pop. Together, contributors illustrate the potential of queer methodologies in the musical realm, and where we go from here. Keywords: queer musicology, ethnomusicology, queer performance, popular music, queer theory, music and sexuality, LGBTQ studies"-- Provided by publisher