附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
Discography: page 265.
Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. Composing oneself (reprise).
摘要:Hubbs shows how a group of gifted Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive 'American sound' & in the process served as architects of modern American identity. She focuses on the circle that included Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles & Ned Rorem.
