GBLTQ Studies in Music *
The Music Genre Guides are designed for use by music faculty and students. Included in these guides are lists of call number ranges and subject headings for browsing/accessing books, journals, scores, and audio/visual recordings on different aspects of each genre. Online resources such as links to notable professional organizations and commonly used web sites and blogs are also included.
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BROWSING AND CATALOG SEARCHING BY CALL NUMBER RANGES
Call Numbers
Subject Headings
- Castrati.
- Gay men and musicals.
- Gay men -- Biography.Gay musicians.
- Gay musicians -- Biography.
- Gay musicians -- United States.
- Gays and rock music.
- Gender identity in music.
- Homosexuality and music.
- Homosexuality and popular music.
- Homosexuality Related to Music
- Lesbianism in opera.
- Lesbians and musicals -- United States.
- Lesbian musicians -- Biography.
- Lesbian musicians -- United States -- Biography.
- Lesbian musicians -- United States -- History.
PRINT RESOURCES (in the Reference Room)
Reference Books
Ref ML100 .Q44 2004
The queer encyclopedia of music, dance, & musical theater / Claude J. Summers, editor.
Journals
Directories
SELECT PRINT RESOURCES (in the Stacks)
HODGES HQ75.15 .C66 2007
A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies / edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry.
ML55 .Q44 2006
Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology / edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas.
STORAGE ML63 .G49 1995
Queer noises : male and female homosexuality in twentieth-century music / John Gill.
ML63 .Q44 2002
Queer episodes in music and modern identity / edited by Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell.
ML63 .S64 1995
Seduced and abandoned : essays on gay men and popular music / Richard Smith.
ML82 .A93 1999
Audible traces : gender, identity, and music / edited by Elaine Barkin & Lydia Hamessley.
ML200.5 .H83 2004
The queer composition of America’s sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity / Nadine Hubbs.
ML385 .H14 1997
Sing out! : gays and lesbians in the music world / Boze Hadleigh.
ML394 .H683 1996
Hot licks : lesbian musicians of note / edited by Lee Fleming.
ML400 .H47
The castrati in opera.
ML410.H13 H283 2001
Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas / Ellen T. Harris.
ML410.O5834 M63 2008
Sounding out : Pauline Oliveros and lesbian musicality / Martha Mockus.
ML417.T58 M53 1998
Suits me : the double life of Billy Tipton / Diane Wood Middlebrook.
ML420.M1387 M28 2004
Madonna’s drowned worlds : new approaches to her cultural transformations, 1983-2003 / edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens.
ML420.M665 C57 2004
Moreschi : the last castrato / Nicholas Clapton.
ML429.K74 A3 1993
The queen’s throat : opera, homosexuality, and the mystery of desire / Wayne Koestenbaum.
ML1460 .B7
Degli "evirati cantori"; contributo alla storia del teatro. [Castratti]
ML1700 .C58 1999
Something for the boys : musical theater and gay culture / John M. Clum.
ML1700 .S69 2004
Angels and monsters : male and female sopranos in the story of opera, 1600-1900 / Richard Somerset-Ward.
ML1700 .W67 1997
The work of opera : genre, nationhood, and sexual difference / Richard Dellamora and Daniel Fischlin, editors.
ML1711 .M58 1998
Place for us : essay on the Broadway musical / D.A. Miller.
ML1733.4 .A53 2006
Voicing gender : Castrati, Travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera / Naomi André.
ML2054 .W65 2002
A problem like Maria : gender and sexuality in the American musical / by Stacy Wolf.
ML2100 .E6 1995
En travesti : women, gender subversion, opera / edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith.
ML2100 .H45 2003
Emblems of eloquence : opera and women’s voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.
ML3470 .O4 2007
Oh boy! : masculinities and popular music / edited by Freya Jarman-Ivens.
ML3470 .Q44 2006
Queering the popular pitch / edited by Sheila Whiteley and Jennifer Rycenga
ML3534 .C54 2005
Homocore : the loud and raucous rise of queer rock / David Ciminelli and Ken Knox.
ML3838 .M96 1993
Musicology and difference : gender and sexuality in music scholarship / edited by Ruth A. Solie.
ML3838 .P365 2006
Listening to the sirens : musical technologies of queer identity from Homer to Hedwig / Judith A. Peraino.
ML3917.U33 N36 2005
Baakisimba : gender in the music and dance of the Baganda people of Uganda / Sylvia A. Nannyonga-Tamusuza.
MT820 .B2713 1996
The world of the castrati : the history of an extraordinary operatic phenomenon / Patrick Barbier ; translated by Margaret Crosland.
AUDIO-VISUAL RESOURCES
CD M178 .G39 1996
Gay American composers [sound recording].
CD M178 .G39 1997
Gay American composers. Volume two [sound recording].
CD M1977.W64 L474 1998
Lesbian American composers [sound recording].
CD M1999.M64 A44 1987
Alessandro Moreschi [sound recording] : the complete recordings.
CD7155
Feeding the flame [sound recording] : songs by men to end AIDS.
CD12723
Audible traces : gender, identity, and music / edited by Elaine Barkin & Lydia Hamessley.
CD14016
Farinelli, il castrato [sound recording] : bande originale du film = original motion picture soundtrack.
CD15394
Carestini, the story of a castrato [sound recording].
DVD HQ73 .W49 2007
Why we sing! [videorecording] : [gay, lesbian and transgender choruses opening hearts and changing lives through song] / Dillonwood Productions ; a film by Lawrence B. Dillon ; co-producer & writer, Eric Jansen.
DVD ML82 .R33 2002
Radical harmonies [videorecording] / a Woman Vision film.
DVD ML385 .W35 M6 2005
This moment [videorecording] / Karmic Release, Ltd. ; directed by Richard Morris ; produced by Roberta Morris-Purdee ; music by John Wallowitch.
VHS ML410 .H483 H48 2001
Hans Werner Henze [videorecording] : portrait & Requiem / a director cut production for RM Associates in association with Hessischer Rundfunk.
VHS HQ75.6 .U52 A43 2003
The Amasong Chorus [videorecording] : singing out / produced, directed, written, and edited by Jay Rosenstein ; produced in associated with the Independent Television Service and WILL-TV.
ONLINE RESOURCES
*Call numbers apply to UT held items only
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Pauline Bayne and Connie Steigenga, Revised April 2008

