Transaurality: On Listening to SOPHIE Against Queer Theory.

This article brings recent debates within trans and queer scholarship regarding the body to bear on questions of 'trans music', considering in turn how trans music tempers these debates. The determinate, possessed body is the current conceptual and material problem engendering a bifurcation in trans...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Music Review Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 254 - 283
Autor principal: Blackburn, Anton L.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2025
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