文档介绍：Listening to the Sirens
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous
contribution to this book provided by the Hull Memorial
Publication Fund of Cornell University.
Listening to the Sirens
Musical Technologies of Queer Identity
from Homer to Hedwig
Judith A. Peraino
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
The following excerpts are used by permission of Oxford University
Press: John Hilton, “Here Is an Old Ground,” and Henry Purcell,
“Jack, Thou’rt a Toper” and “A Farewell to Wives,” from The Catch
Book, ed. Paul Hillier.© Oxford University Press, 1987. All rights
reserved.
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 2006 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peraino, Judith Ann.
Listening to the sirens : musical technologies of queer identity from
Homer to Hedwig / Judith A. Peraino.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–520–21587–7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Gender identity in music. 2. Homosexuality and music.
3. Music and literature. 4. Music—History and criticism. I. Title.
2005
780'.86'64—dc22 2005006234
Manufactured in the United States of America
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This book is printed on Natures Book, which contains 50% post-
consumer waste and meets the minimum requirements of
ANSI/NISO –1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).
For my parents
and
in memory of Philip Brett
contents
List of Illustrations / ix
Acknowledgments / xi
Introduction / 1
1. Songs of the Sirens / 11
desire
2. A Music of One’s Own / 68
discipline
3. Queer Ears and Icons / 110
sign systems
4. munities / 152
production
5. Flights of Fancy / 195
power
Notes / 253
Works Cited / 307
Index / 333