Queer Ear

This book brings together a diverse group of music theorists who issue queer challenges to both music theory and musicology and show that queerness is integral to music-theoretical practice. Through the lenses of queer temporality, queer narratology, and queer music analysis, chapters examine a wide variety of artists and composers, including Sun Ra, Cowell, Czernowin, Henze, Schubert, and Schumann; theories ranging from Schenker to queer shame, disability studies, and posthumanism; and authors such as Edward Cone and Edward Prime-Stevenson.

Gavin S.K. Lee is Assistant Professor of Music at Soochow University. His research on queer music studies and global musical modernisms, particularly in Asian geographies, has appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Current Musicology. He is the author of the forthcoming Estrangement from Ethnicity: Music and Sinophone Alienation and editor of Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music. In recent years, Lee has presented guest lectures on three continents at universities in the US, Australia, and Taiwan.

Introduction: Queer Ear
Gavin S.k. Lee
1 Queer and Critical Race Theory, Figuring Out Music Theory
Gavin S.K. Lee, Philip Ewell, and Robert Hatten
Queer Music Analysis
2 Music Analysis; Queer Academy
James Currie
3 Queering Schubert's "Der Atlas": Reflections on Positionality and Close Reading
David Bretherton
4 The Expression of Queerness in Hans Werner Henze's Music
Federica Marsico
5 Multiplicities, Truth, Ethics: a queering analysis of Chaya Czernowin's Anea Crystal
Judith Lochhead
Queer Temporality
6 Sun Ra's Fletcher Henderson
Chris Stover
7 The Chronographic Fallacy of Unilinear Music Theory, Or, Un(Re)productive Temporality in Dichterliebe
Gavin S.K. Lee
8 Queering Musical Chrononormativity: Percussion Works of the West Coast Group
Bill Solomon
Queer Narratology
9 Queer Sexuality and Musical Narrative
Fred Everett Maus
10 "Legendary In-Reading": Musical Meaning, Analysis, and Biography in Edward Prime-Stevenson's Music Criticism and Sexology
Kristin Franseen
11 Animating Musical Agency
Vivian Luong
Index