The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

Fred Everett Maus is Director of Undergraduate Programs for Music and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Women and Music.Sheila Whiteley was Professsor Emeritus of Music at the University of Salford. She wrote, edited, or co-edited several books, including Women and Popular Music: Popular Music and Gender , Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, and Queering the Popular Pitch.Tavia Nyong'o is Chair and Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale University. He is author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life.Zoe Sherinian is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Division Chair at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology.

• IntroductionFred Everett Maus Whose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance MusicLuis-Manuel Garcia The Queer Pleasures of MusicalsBradley Rogers The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel MusicE. Patrick Johnson Queer as Trad: LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United StatesTes Slominski Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer SincerityShana Goldin-Perschbacher Queer Hip Hop: A Brief HistoriographyShanté Paradigm Smalls From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the BibleDirk von der Horst Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative SexualitiesFreya Jarman Queer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad GirlsNina Treadwell Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban MuñozKaren Tongson Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello's Butch VoiceTavia Nyong'o Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and SexualityStephan Pennington Sound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of MusicJodie Taylor Transcripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field RecordingDrew Daniel Queering BrightonSheila Whiteley (To) Queer: "A" Life to MusicElizabeth Gould Endangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and SchumannCharles Fisk Musical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDSColin Andrew Lee Toward a Trans* Method in MusicologyDana Baitz Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra> 's Space Is the PlaceTim Stüttgen Musical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable SexualitiesJenny Olivia Johnson Music in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200-1500Lisa Colton The Queer History of the CastratoEmily Wilbourne Queering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US TheaterGillian Rodger Anglophone Songs about HIV/AIDSMatthew J. Jones Queer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song ContestIvan Raykoff Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer EthnomusicologyZoe Sherinian Kunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer PerformanceJoseph S. C. Lam Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian PerformanceHenry Spiller Out in the Undercurrents: Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular MusicYiu Fai Chow and Jeroen De Kloet How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural "Transcription," "Queerness," and Ukrainian PopStephen Amico

Fred Everett Maus and Sheila Whiteley, together with the theatre and performance scholar and Afro-American studies professor Tavia Nyong'o and the ethnomusicologist Zoe Sherinian, attempt to do justice to the not exactly easy claim to do justice to the diversity of the topics offered in a handbook with a great variety of a total of 32 text contributions in six sections.