The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate.

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.