TY - BOOK ID - 77862044 TI - The queer composition of America's sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity PY - 2004 SN - 0520937953 1282763067 1597348422 9786612763069 9780520937956 1417545224 9781417545223 9781597348423 9781282763067 0520241843 9780520241848 0520241851 9780520241855 661276306X PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gay composers KW - National music KW - Modernism (Music) KW - Music KW - Composers KW - Patriotic music KW - Modernism in music KW - Modernist music KW - Musical modernism KW - Style, Musical KW - History and criticism. KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - america. KW - american culture. KW - american identity. KW - american music. KW - american sound. KW - art and music. KW - biographical. KW - composers. KW - famous musicians. KW - french culture. KW - gay composers. KW - gay modernists. KW - gender identity. KW - gender studies. KW - history of homosexuality. KW - homosexuality. KW - lgbtq. KW - manhattan. KW - modern america. KW - music and culture. KW - music historians. KW - music history. KW - music students. KW - music studies. KW - musicology. KW - national identity. KW - nonfiction. KW - queer studies. KW - self identification. KW - tonal music. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862044 AB - In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification-especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality-in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall. ER -