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. 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