Queer Arrangements (eBook)

Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration

Lisa Barg (Autor)

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2023
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0065-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the 2024 Philip Brett Award, sponsored by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS)The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915 1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives. Queer Arrangements explores the ways in which Strayhorn's identity as an openly gay Black jazz musician shaped his career, including the creative roles he could assume and the dynamics between himself and his collaborators, most famously Duke Ellington, but also iconic singers such as Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald. This new portrait of Strayhorn combines critical, historically-situated close readings of selected recordings, scores, and performances with biography and cultural theory to pursue alternative interpretive jazz possibilities, Black queer historical routes, and sounds. By looking at jazz history through the instrument(s) of Strayhorn's queer arrangements, this book sheds new light on his music and on jazz collaboration at midcentury.

Autor

LISA BARG (Montreal, QC) is Associate Professor of Music History and Musicology at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. She is currently serving as Co-editor-In-Chief of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture.

Inhalt

Introduction: Queer Arrangements/Queer Collaboration • Part One - Working Behind the Scenes: Gender, Sexuality and Collaboration in Strayhorn's Vocal Arrangements • Chapter One – Arriving by Flamingo • Chapter Two – Difficult Beauty Part Two – Strayhorn's Queer Music • Chapter Three – Strayhorn's Lorcian Encounter • Chapter Four – Black Queer Moves in the Strayhorn-Ellington Nutcracker Suite • Part Three – Strayhorn Performing/Arranging Strayhorn • Chapter 5 – Paris, Halfway to Dawn, or Listening to The Peaceful Side • Epilogue - Ever Up and Onward, or Searching for Stayhorn in the 21st Century

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: jazz collaboration
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-0065-8 / 0819500658
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-0065-6 / 9780819500656