Exploring the relationship between queer sexuality and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950--a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae. Contributors are Byron Adams, Philip Brett, Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Sophie Fuller, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, Ivan Raykoff, Fiona Richards, Eva Rieger, Gillian Rodger, Sherrie Tucker, and Lloyd Whitesell.

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (1931 ) has achieved international acclaim for her unique musical oeuvre which draws on Eastern and Western musical traditions and reflects a deep-rooted belief in the mystical and religious qualities of music.

Kurtz s biography of Gubaidulina is the first in any language. Based on her papers and extensive interviews with Gubaidulina, her colleagues, and family, the book places her life and the evolution of her work within the broader cultural and political context of the post-Stalin Soviet Union. For the English edition, the text has been revised and updated and a chronology of Gubaidulina s life and a complete list of her works have been added."

"The book... includes... valuable essays and interviews, which movebeyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich's lifeunder a totalitarian regime.... The 'Casebook' contributors compellingly warn ofreplacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simpleinversion." -- New York Times

..". an important andreadable collection.... It presents a devastating critique of Volkov's claims andscholarly practices in Testimony." -- New York Review ofBooks

A Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews -- many newly available since thecollapse of the Soviet Union -- to create a volume of essential reading andcutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include MalcolmH. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.