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Imagining musical pasts : the queer literary musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson
- Title
- Imagining musical pasts : the queer literary musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson / Kristin M. Franseen.
- Author
- Franseen, Kristin M.
- Publication
- Clemson : Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 258 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- "Imagining Musical Pasts considers the ways early twentieth-century musicologists Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson approached gender and sexuality in their scholarly and creative work. This book explores the place of musicology as literature, as well as the role of gossip and speculation in constructing queer music histories"--
- Subject
- Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 > Criticism and interpretation
- Newmarch, Rosa, 1857-1940 > Criticism and interpretation
- Prime-Stevenson, Edward, 1858-1942 > Criticism and interpretation
- Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935
- Newmarch, Rosa, 1857-1940
- Queer musicology > History
- Music > Historiography
- Homosexuality and music
- Queer musicology
- Sex in music
- Criticism and interpretation
- Music
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. The Old Queer Musicology -- I. Vernon Lee's Ghostly Musical Encounters. "The more or less remote Past" : Imagining Castrati and Overhearing the Eighteenth Century ; "A gallery of dramatis personae with whom I often feel very intimate" : Musicological Authority and Curious Intimacies in Music and its Lovers and "A Wicked Voice" -- II. Rosa Newmarch's Musical Detective Work. "An autobiographical interest for which there is no real warranty" : Gossip, Evidence, and Speculation in Newmarch's Tchaikovsky Scholarship ; "Her own song to sing" : Friendship and Romantic Ambiguity in Mary Wakefield and the Sonnets -- III. Edward Prime-Stevenson's Secret Identities and Musical Nostalgia. "The ultimate voices in a homosexual message by symphonic music" : The Intersexes and Long-Haired Iopas as Hidden Musicological Sexology ; "Once : But Not Twice"? Repertory as the Culmination of Nostalgic Wanderings -- Conclusions. Are Musicologists Human?
- Call Number
- JME 24-38
- ISBN
- 9781638040583
- 1638040583
- 9781638040590 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023037652
- OCLC
- 1346615196
- Author
- Franseen, Kristin M., author.
- Title
- Imagining musical pasts : the queer literary musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson / Kristin M. Franseen.
- Publisher
- Clemson : Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Franseen, Kristin M. Imagining musical pasts First edition. Clemson : Clemson University Press, 2023 9781638040590 (DLC) 2023037653
- Research Call Number
- JME 24-38