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Author Peraino, Judith Ann

Title Listening to the sirens : musical technologies of queer identity from Homer to Hedwig / Judith A. Peraino
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 355 pages)
Contents Songs of the sirens : desire -- A music of one's own : discipline -- Queer ears and icons : sign systems -- Homomusical communities : production -- Flights of fancy : power
Summary Judith Perraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with an examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens, she goes on to consider musical creatures, gods, humans and music-addled listeners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index
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Subject Gender identity in music.
Homosexuality and music.
Music and literature.
Music -- History and criticism.
MUSIC -- Reference.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Gender identity in music
Homosexuality and music
Music and literature
Music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696429
ISBN 9780520921740
0520921747
1423717287
9781423717287
9780520215870
1282356437
9781282356436
0520215877