Queer arrangements Billy Strayhorn and midcentury jazz collaboration
"A study of the legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967), exploring how Strayhorn's identity as an openly gay Black jazz musician shaped his career, musical sensibility, and the dynamics with his collaborators"--
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| Sprache: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press
[2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Music/culture
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction. Queer Arrangements, Queer Collaboration
- Part I. Working Behind the Scenes : Gender, Sexuality, and Collaboration in Strayhorn's Vocal Arrangements. Arriving by "Flamingo" ; Difficult Beauty
- Part II. Strayhorn's Queer Music. Strayhorn's Lorcian Encounter ; Black Queer Moves in the Strayhorn-Ellington Nutcracker Suite
- Part III. Strayhorn Performing/Arranging Strayhorn. Paris, Halfway to Dawn, or Listening to the Peaceful Side
- Epilogue. Ever Up and Onward, or Searching for Strayhorn in the Twenty-First Century