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Summary:

"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"-- [Provided by publisher]
"Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history. The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives. Queer Arrangements explores the ways in which Strayhorn's identity as an openly gay Black jazz musician shaped his career, including the creative roles he could assume and the dynamics between himself and his collaborators, most famously Duke Ellington, but also iconic singers such as Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald. This new portrait of Strayhorn combines critical, historically-situated close readings of selected recordings, scores and performances with biography and cultural theory to pursue alternative interpretive jazz possibilities, Black queer historical routes and sounds. By looking at jazz history through the instrument(s) of Strayhorn's queer arrangements, this book sheds new light on his music and on jazz collaboration at midcentury"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Barg, Lisa , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Queer arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and midcentury jazz collaboration [by Barg, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Queer arrangements [by Barg, L.] (Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023] — ISBN 9780819500632; LCCN 2023015025)

Related Series:

Music/culture

Subjects:

Strayhorn, Billy — Criticism and interpretation

Jazz — Social aspects — History — 20th century

Jazz — 20th century — History and criticism

Homosexuality and music

Composition (Music) — Collaboration

Arrangers (Musicians) — United States

African American jazz musicians

African American gay men — Social conditions

Queer theory

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (Project MUSE, viewed on October 30, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

ML410.S9325 B37 2023eb

ISBNs:

9780819500656 (electronic book)
0819500658 (electronic book)
9780819500632 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780819500649 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023015026

OCLC Numbers:

1381313166

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30960977 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305612225