The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573441988 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Summers is also the editor of The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (available from Turnaround) and is professor emeritus in the humanities at the University of Michigan. He lives in New Orleans . Claude J
And don’t forget Kiss Me Kate, the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter, married, though openly gay; produced by a gay man; directed by John C. Wilson, Noël Coward's ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang, who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal.No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly, yet eminently readable compendium, which includes: overviews of genres, such as opera, ballet, cabaret, modern dance, rock, disco, and hip-hop; discussions of topics like glam roc
Scottie WallaceCopyright © American Library Association. It's easy to negotiate the more than 200 alphabetically organized, signed entries and essays throughout the text. Also, the well-developed index of names, located at the end of the book, assists in locating all sorts of diverse individuals who do not have separate entries: Condoleezza Rice (in the entry Van Cliburn) is an example.Entries average half to three-quarters of a page, sometimes longer. A topical index will prove extremely useful to people searching for broad categories, such as AIDS, and Drag shows and performers. The editor clearly states that it "has no pretensions to comprehensiveness" but is intended to be "an important beginning, not an end"--and what a wonderful beginning it is! The volume covers primarily the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, and the subjects included are predominately, though certainly not exclusively, N
Interesting information. I was surprised that I enjoyed what I read. This book was very informative and could be used for references.