Queering the Pitch

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Queering The Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology is a 1994 book edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas.[1][2] It was published in the United States by Routledge and focuses on the impact of factors such as sexuality or race has on a musician's music.[3]

Synopsis[edit]

The book's chapters examines how sexuality in the American Musicological Society (AMS) as well as the differences on how the musician's sexuality and the sexuality defines the musician's music along with gender, race, class and nationality.

Reception[edit]

The book has received reviews from multiple outlets,[4][5][6] which includes the Journal of the American Musicological Society,[7] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[8] Musicology Australia,[9] and Notes.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Brett, Philip; Wood, Elizabeth; Thomas, Gary (1994). Queering The Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 357.
  2. ^ Cook, Susan C. (1996). "Review of Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England, ; The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body, Richard Leppert; Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ; Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Signs. 21 (3): 769–774. doi:10.1086/495113. JSTOR 3175186.
  3. ^ Miller, Edward (24 April 2018). "Queering The Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology".
  4. ^ Miller, Edward David (1994). "Review of Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". TDR. 38 (4): 191–194. doi:10.2307/1146432. JSTOR 1146432.
  5. ^ Sweeney-Turner, Steve (1996). Brett, Philip; Wood, Elizabeth; Thomas, Gary C. (eds.). "Mine Camp". The Musical Times. 137 (1846): 28–29. doi:10.2307/1004269. JSTOR 1004269.
  6. ^ Garnett, Liz (1996). "Review of Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Music & Letters. 77 (3): 482–483. doi:10.1093/ml/77.3.482. JSTOR 737134.
  7. ^ Solie, Ruth A. (1995-07-01). "Review: Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 48 (2): 311–323. doi:10.2307/3128820. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 3128820.
  8. ^ ""Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology"". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1994-02-02. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
  9. ^ Champagne, Mario J.S.G. (1994). "Queering the pitch: The new gay and lesbian musicology". Musicology Australia. 17 (1): 78–82. doi:10.1080/08145857.1994.10415253. ISSN 0814-5857.
  10. ^ Smart, Mary Ann (1995). "Review of Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Notes. 51 (4): 1280–1283. doi:10.2307/899102. JSTOR 899102.