The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity

Contents

• Acknowledgments Introduction. Composing Oneself
• 1. Modernist Abstraction and the Abstract Art: Four Saints and the Queer Composition of America's Sound
• 2. Being Musical: Gender, Sexuality, and Musical Identity in Twentieth-Century America Intermezzo. My Dear Freddy: Identity Excesses and Evasions chez Paul Bowles
• 3. A French Connection: Modernist Codes in the Musical Closet
• 4. Queerness, Eruption, Bursting: U.S. Musical Modernism at Midcentury Coda. Composing Oneself (Reprise) Notes Works Cited Discography Index