Rethinking difference in music scholarship / edited by Olivia Bloechl, University of California, Los Angeles ; Melanie Lowe, Vanderbilt University ; Jeffrey Kallberg, University of Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : rethinking difference / Olivia Bloechl, with Melanie Lowe -- He said, she said? : men hearing women in Medicean Florence / Suzanne G. Cusick -- Race, empire, and early music / Olivia Bloechl -- What Mr. Jefferson didn't hear / Bonnie Gordon -- Difference and Enlightenment in Haydn's instrumental music / Melanie Lowe -- Different masculinities : androgyny, effeminacy, and Rossini's La donna del lago / Heather Hadlock -- Composing racial difference in Madama Butterfly : tonal language and power of Cio-Cio-San / Judy Tsou -- Maurice Ravel's Chants populaires and the exotic within / Sindhumathi Revuluri -- "Diving into the earth" : the musical worlds of Julius Eastman / Ellie M. Hisama -- Synthesizing difference : the queer circuits of early synthpop / Judith A. Peraino -- "Pranksta rap" : humor as difference in hip hop / Charles Hiroshi Garrett -- Race and the aesthetics of vocal timbre / Nina Sun Eidsheim -- Beneath difference : or, humanistic evolutionism / Gary Tomlinson -- Difference unthought / Jairo Moreno

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

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