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Author Balen, Julia, 1955- author.

Title A queerly joyful noise : choral musicking for social justice / Julia "Jules" Balen
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 211 pages)
Contents Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Why Choruses? -- Part One: Finding Our Voices -- Chapter 1: Singing as Counterstorying Practice -- Chapter 2: Choral Musicking for Change -- Part Two: Queer Organizing for Social Change -- Chapter 3: Practices of Identity: Queering Social Institutions -- Chapter 4: Queer Choral Musicking: Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 5: Choral Technologies for Queering -- Part Three: Communal Erotics and Social Justice -- Chapter 6: Emotions, Identities, and Choral Musicking
Chapter 7: Communal Erotics: Choral Musicking and Our Capacity for JoyAcknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A Queerly Joyful Noise investigates why so many LGBTIQ people are drawn to choral music and how queer chorus members create an experience that is beautiful and politically impactful. Julia ""Jules"" Bal#65533;n vividly conveys how queer choruses can collectively empower their singers and serve as progressive rallying calls for their listeners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2017)
Subject Choral singing -- Social aspects -- United States
Choral singing -- Political aspects -- United States
Gay choirs -- United States
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Gay choirs
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017027500
ISBN 9780813588414
0813588413
9780813588407
0813588405
0813588391
9780813588391
9780813588384
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