Whither Trans/Queer Music Studies?
In this paper, the authors develop a critical dialogue to trans/queerly trouble paradigmatic directions in music studies. Particularly, the authors engage the liberal tendency to celebrate trans/queer interventions as a discipline's progress towards becoming more diverse and inclusive. The article e...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Music Review Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 283 - 305 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=193835175&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 193835175 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07494467 7VR jtl: Contemporary Music Review issn: 07494467 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2025 vid: 44 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 193835175 10.1080/07494467.2026.2621563 ppf: 283 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 637KB tig: atl: Whither Trans/Queer Music Studies? aug: au: Medina, Alejandrina M. Levy, Dan Arthur Tran, Nicholas Allphin, Poe M. affil: Integrative Studies, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA Musicology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada Graduate Center, City University New York, New York, NY, USA su: LGBTQ+ studies Gender studies Music education Sound art Musical composition Transgender rights sug: subj: LGBTQ+ studies Gender studies Music education Sound art Musical composition Transgender rights keyword: embodiment materialism music studies pedagogy queer Trans ab: In this paper, the authors develop a critical dialogue to trans/queerly trouble paradigmatic directions in music studies. Particularly, the authors engage the liberal tendency to celebrate trans/queer interventions as a discipline's progress towards becoming more diverse and inclusive. The article emerges from a recent panel at Feminist Theory and Music 17 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Through wide-ranging engagement with music and sound, we attempt to (re)orient our relationship to music studies and its various interventions, including the (im)possible emergence of trans/queer as a distinct area of study. The authors collectively draw on mutable forms of embodiment to explore trans/queer music studies otherwise—that is, to pursue a relational mode of scholarship that provokes generative and capacious directions in our study. Recognising ourselves within the 'terrible we' of trans scholarship (Awkward-Rich, 2022. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durham: Duke University Press)—as junior, racialized, (dis)abled, trans/queer scholars—how do our relations on and off the page revel in loudness, noise, and dissonance? Simultaneously, we locate these trans/queer relationships within contemporary material histories, including the regulation of bodies through anti-trans/queer legislation, relational modes of performance and composition, and Brazil's history of slavery. We might imagine this article as a discordant chorus more than a harmonious gesture of calcification, which is to say that the voices in the article indulge in a dialogic cacophony in order to trace (dis)connections between the fractal nodes of trans/queer critical thought in music studies. While it may be comforting to proffer a legible response to recent developments in trans/queer music studies, we instead suggest that a critical hesitancy might better afford an overdue reflexivity for trans/queer music scholars. As such, the essay invites readers into the 'terrible we' in hopes of grounding our work in contemporary material quagmires to open toward possibilities of trans/queerly musicking otherwise. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Contemporary Music Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Contemporary Music Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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