Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theory


Attig, R. Brian. "The Gay Voice in Popular Music: A Social Value Model Analysis of 'Don't Leave Me This Way.'" Journal of homosexuality 21/1-2 (1991), 185-202.

Attinello, Paul. "Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 315-346. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Bradby, Barbara. "Lesbians and popular music: Does it matter who is singing?" In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 33-44. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

Brett, Philip. "Are You Musical?" Musical Times (June 1994), 370-374.

Brett, Philip. "Britten's Dream." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 259-280. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Brett, Philip. "Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 235-256. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Brett, Philip. "Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 9-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Brett, Philip. "Piano four-hands: Schubert and the performance of gay male desire." 19th-century music 21/2 (fall 1997), 149-176.

Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Currid, Brian. "'We are family': House Music and Queer Performativity." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 67-83. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Dame, Joke. "Unveiled Voices: Sexual Difference and the Castrato." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 139-154. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Dugaw, Dianne. "Parody, Gender, and Transformation in Gay and Handel's Acis and Galatea." Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 (Summer 1996), 345-67.

Eder, Donna. "The National Women's Music Festival: Collective Identity and Diversity in a Lesbian-Feminist Community." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23 (Jan. 1995), 485-515.

Francois, A. L. "Fakin' it/Makin' it: Falsetto's Bid for Transcendence in 1970s Disco Highs." Perspectives of New Music 33 (1995), 442-457.

Gill, John. Queer noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Goldstein, Lynda. "Revamping MTV: Passing for Queer Culture in the Video Closet." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology, ed. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, 262-279. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Hamessley, Lydia. "Henry Lawe's Setting of Katherine Philip's Friendship Poetry in his Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading?" In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 115-138. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Hawkins, S. "Perspectives in Popular Musicology: Music, Lennox, and Meaning in 1990s Pop." Popular Music 15 (1996), 17-36. [Analysis of Lennox's "Money Can't Buy It."]

Hicks, Michael. "The Imprisonment of Henry Cowell." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44/1 (1991), 92-119.

Holsinger, Bruce Wood. "The Flesh of the Voice: Embodiment and the Homoerotics of Devotion in the Music of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)." Signs 19/1 (1993), 92-125.

Hubbs, Nadine. "Music of the 'Fourth Gender': Morrissey and the Sexual Politics of Melodic Contour." In Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance, ed. Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, and Ellen Berry, 266-296. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. New York: Poseidon Press, 1993.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. "Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 1-8. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Maas, Lawrence D. "A Conversation with Ned Rorem." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 85-112. New York: Routledge, 1994.

McClary, Susan. "Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 205-233. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Meredith, William. "Commentary: The Eroica and Beethoven's Sexuality through a Feminist Lens--Susan McClary's Readings of Beethoven in Queering the Pitch." Beethoven Newsletter 8-9/3-1 (1993-1994), 107-109.

McClellan, Michael E. "'If we could talk with the animals': Elephants and Musical Performance During the French Revolution." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Mockus, Martha. "Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 257-271. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Morris, Mitchell. "On Gaily Reading Music." repercussions 1/1 (1992), 48-64. [Barthes, Lacan, Bakhtin, Sedgwick]

Morris, Mitchell. "Reading as an Opera Queen." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 184-200. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Outlaw, Paul. "If that's your boyfriend (he wasn't last night)." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 347-350.

Pegley, Karen and Virginia Caputo. "Growing Up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings." repercussions 1-1 (1992), 65-80. Also in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 297-314. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Peraino, Judith. "'Rip Her to Shreds': Women's Music According to a Butch-Femme Aesthetic." repercussions 1/1 (1992), 19-47. [Phranc, Deborah Harry, butch-femme]

Russ, Michael. "Modeste Musorgsky and Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov." Irish musical studies 5 (1996), 241-250.

Rycenga, Jennifer. "Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 275-298. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Savigliano, Marta E. "Tango and the Postmodern Uses of Passion." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Savoy, Eric. "The signifying rabbit." Narrative3/2 (May 1995), 188-209.

Stein , Arlene. "Androgyny Goes Pop: But is it Lesbian Music?" In Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation, ed. Arlene Stein. New York: Plume, 1993.

Stein, Arlene. "Crossover dreams: Lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s." In: Out in culture: Gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture. London, England: Cassell, 1995. Durham: Duke U., 1995.

Thomas, Gary C. "'Was George Friederic Handel Gay?': On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 155-204. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Thompson, Mark. "Children of paradise: A brief history of queens." In: Out in culture: Gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture. London, England: Cassell, 1995. Durham: Duke U., 1995.

Wolf, Stacy. "The Queer Pleasures of Mary Martin and Broadway: The Sound of Music as a Lesbian Musical." Modern Drama 39 (Spring 1996), 51-63.

Wood, Elizabeth. "Lesbian Fugue: Ethel Smyth's Contrapuntal Arts." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 164-183. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Wood, Elizabeth. "Sapphonics." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 27-66. New York: Routledge, 1994.

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