Desparately Seeking Marsha: Music and Lesbian Imagination

Autor/in	Gould, Elizabeth
Titel	Desparately Seeking Marsha: Music and Lesbian Imagination
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 4 (2005) 3, (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Imagination; Middle Class; Musicians; Sexual Orientation; Homosexuality; North Americans; Power Structure; Social Attitudes; Social Bias; Females; Whites; Feminism; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Musiker; Sexuelle Orientierung; Homosexualität; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Weibliches Geschlecht; White; Weißer; Feminismus; Ausland
Abstract	Regardless of race, gender, class, physical- and cognitive-ableness, as well as sexual orientation, to be musical in North American and western European societies is to be queer--particularly for men (Fuller and Whitesell, 2002), and maybe specifically for men, since women barely register in discussions of musicians. In this article, the author talks about being white--people's whiteness. Where/how do individuals place themselves along the continuum of whiteness? For feminist women, the ways in which middle class respectability is implicated in whiteness is particularly salient. As an analytical device, then, the author suggests that whiteness and by extension the racial imagination must be interrogated as they produce and reproduce heteronormativity and fail to take into account the lived experiences of at least some embodied subject(ivitie)s. As an alternative, the author suggests another perspective: lesbian imagination. What the author calls "lesbian imagination" is explored by Suzanne Cusick (1994) in terms of what she describes as an attempt to avoid thinking straight. Discussing what it might mean to be a lesbian as well as a musician, Cusick notes that all relationships are negotiated in terms of power. (Contains 11 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	MayDay Group. Brandon University School of Music, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9, Canada. Tel: 204-571-8990; Fax: 204-727-7318; Web site: http://act.maydaygroup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10