Listening to the sirens : musical technologies of queer identity from Homer to Hedwig
"In this study, Judith A. Peraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with a close examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens - whose music seduced Ulysses into a state of mind in which he would glady sacrifice everything for the illicit pleasures promised in their song - Peraino goes on to consider musical creatures, musical gods and demigods, musical humans, and music-addled listeners who have been associated with behavior that breaches social conventions. She employs a sophisticated reading of Foucault as an organizational principle as well as a philosophical focus to survey seductive and transgressive queerness in music from the time of the ancient Greeks through the Middle Ages and to the contemporary period
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2006