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The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity

By: Nadine Hubbs

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The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity

By: Nadine Hubbs

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520937953

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Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music

By: Nadine Hubbs

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Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music

By: Nadine Hubbs

In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America’s most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics. In Hubbs’s view, the popular phrase "I’ll listen to anything but country" allows middle-class Americans to declare inclusive "omnivore" musical tastes with one crucial exclusion: country, a music linked to low-status whites. Throughout Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Hubbs dissects this gesture, examining how provincial white working people have emerged since the 1970s as the face of American bigotry, particularly homophobia, with country music their audible emblem. Bringing together the redneck and the queer, Hubbs challenges the conventional wisdom and historical amnesia that frame white working folk as a perpetual bigot class. With a powerful combination of music criticism, cultural critique, and sociological analysis of contemporary class formation, Nadine Hubbs zeroes in on flawed assumptions about how country music models and mirrors white working-class identities. She particularly shows how dismissive, politically loaded middle-class discourses devalue country’s manifestations of working-class culture, politics, and values, and render working-class acceptance of queerness invisible. Lucid, important, and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture.

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The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity

By: Nadine Hubbs

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Queen

The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

By: Nadine Cohodas

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The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

By: Nadine Cohodas

Drawing on personal documents and interviews with family and colleagues, a biography of the legendary singer chronicles the music and personal life of Dinah Washington, describing her rise to success, quest for love, and tragic death at the age of thirty-nine from an overdose of prescription weight-loss drugs.

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Pantheon

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"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion

An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

By: Nadine Hubbs

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"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion

An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

By: Nadine Hubbs

In 2004 Gretchen Wilson exploded onto the country music scene with 'Redneck Woman.' The blockbuster single led to the early release of her first CD and propelled it to triple platinum sales." Gretchen Wilson celebrates a new kind Virile Woman on the country music scene—but this subtle gender analysis reveals much more than immediately meets the eye. This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

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Decentering the Nation

Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization

By: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell

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Decentering the Nation

Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization

By: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell

winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of “Mexican” cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a broader crisis of representation affecting the nation-state in globalization. This book argues that, while mexicanidad emerged in the early twentieth century as a cultural trope about national origins, culture, and history, it was, nonetheless a trope steeped in ‘otherization’ and used by nation-states (Mexico and the United States) to legitimize narratives of cultural and socioeconomic development stemming out of nationalist political projects that are now under strain. Using music as a phenomenological platform of inquiry, contributors to this book focus on a critique of mexicanidad in terms of the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history, and belonging; and negotiate the experiences of dislocation that affect them. The volume urges readers to find points of resonance in its chapters, and thus, interrogate the asymmetrical ways in which power traverses their own historical experience. In light of the crisis in representation that currently affects the nation-state as a political unit in globalization, such resonance is critical to make culture an arena of social collusion, where alliances can restore the fiber of civil society and contest the pressures that have made disenfranchisement one of the most alarming features characterizing the complex relationships between the state and the neoliberal corporate system that seeks to regulate it. Scholars of history, international relations, cultural anthropology, Latin American studies, queer and gender studies, music, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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Book's by Nadine Hubbs

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music

Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Queen

Queen

"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion

"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion

Decentering the Nation

Decentering the Nation

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