Title: A way of loving, A Way of Knowing: Music, Sexuality and the Becoming of a Queer Musicologist
Abstract:Almost 10 years ago, when I first began to take an interest in musicology as an undergraduate, I never imagined that music research would lead me towards a deeper understanding of gender, sexuality an...Almost 10 years ago, when I first began to take an interest in musicology as an undergraduate, I never imagined that music research would lead me towards a deeper understanding of gender, sexuality and my sexual self. The purpose of studying music at a conservatorium, so I thought, was to learn more about musical formalism, style, history and technical practice. This thought was reified by detailed musicological instruction on the inner workings of music - how it is put together and makes sense melodically, harmonically and rhythmically - as opposed to how people make use of music and how music potentially affects our bodies, emotions and desires; that is, how it makes sense personally and socially. For quite some time I remained largely unaware that a purpose of studying music could also be to learn more about gender performance, sexual identity performance and the ways that people use music to facilitate these expressions of identity. And as such, it was not until some years later, when I could no longer resist questioning myself about the nature and construction of my own queer gender and sexual identity that the same questions began to matter to me as a musicologist.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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