Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Dis-Orientations of Desire: Music Education Queer

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Music Education for Changing Times

Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education ((LAAE,volume 7))

Abstract

Musical cultures are created in relationship to space and time. Unstable and multiple, they “perform the past” (Munt 1998, 137) even as they engage the present in porous space. As “living process[es]” that emerge from the amalgamation of “change and tradition,” musical cultures cannot be only the result of “human actions” (MayDay Group 1997, pp. xxxiii–xxxiv, this volume), as that delimitation would constrain both potentialities (virtualities) and possibilities (actualities) of musical engagement (Deleuze 1994, Deleuze and Guattari 1987). Rather than a “special synergy” consequently, I would suggest that this process is more like “alchemy” (Popkewitz and Gustafson 2002) in which human and nonhuman components are mixed in mysterious ways to produce specific musical values, practices, and discourses, as if by magic. Unique to each situation, such results cannot be duplicated or necessarily predicted because they each depend on a singular or peculiar alchemy of ultimately unknowable elements.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Ahmed, Sara. 2006. Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alhusser, Louis. 1971. Lenin and philosophy and other essays. Translated by Ben Brewster. London: New Left Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bowman, Wayne. 2002. Why do humans value music? Philosophy of Music Education Review, 10(1): 55–63

    Google Scholar 

  • Bredbeck, Gregory W. 1995. Analyzing the classroom: On the impossibility of a queer pedagogy. In Professions of desire: Lesbian and gay studies in literature, George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman, eds., 169–180. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brett, Philip. 2006. Musicality, essentialism, and the closet. In Queering the pitch: The new gay and Lesbian musicology, 2nd ed., Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds., 9–26. New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “sex.” New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, Judith. 1997. Excitable speech: The politics of the performative. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. Fighting words: Black women and the search for justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1991. Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6): 1241–1299.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, Gilles. 1994. Difference and repetition. Translated by Paul Patton. New York: Columbia University Press. Original published in French, 1968.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, Gilles. 2002. Bergsonism. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York: Zone Books. Original published in French in 1966.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1983. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Original published in French in 1972.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, Gilles, and Guattari, Félix. 1987. A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. Original published in French, 1980.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, Gilles and Claire Parnet. 2002. Dialogues II. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York: Columbia University Press. Original published in French in 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eaklor, Vicki L. 1994. The gendered origins of the American musician. The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, 4/5(4, 1): 40–46.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fink, Sue and Joelyn Grippo. 1977/2003. Leaping lesbians. Face the music. Meg Christian, performer, Olivia Records, compact disk, CD913.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, Michel. 1986. Of other spaces. Diacritics, 16, Spring: 22–27.

    Google Scholar 

  • Game, Ann. 1991. Undoing the social: Towards a deconstructive sociology. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gould, Elizabeth. 2003. Cultural contexts of exclusion: Women college band directors. Research Issues in Music Education, 1(1): http://www.stthomas.edu/rimeonline/vol1/gould.htm.

  • Green, Lucy 1997. Music, gender, education. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Grosz, Elizabeth. 2004. The nick of time: Politics, evolution, and the untimely. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harding, Sandra, ed. 2004. The feminist standpoint theory reader: Intellectual and political controversies. New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hertz, Robert. 1973. The pre-eminence of the right hand: A study in religious polarity. In Right and left: Essays on dual symbolic classification, Rodney Needham, ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jorgensen, Estelle. 2007. Comments made at the meeting of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education. London, ON University of Western Ontario.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kant, Immanuel. 1992. Considering the ultimate ground of the differentiation of directions in space. In Theoretical Philosophy. Translated by David Walford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Original published in German in 1768.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and women of the corporation. New York, NY: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kelly, Ursula A. 1997. Schooling desire: Literacy, cultural politics, and pedagogy. New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kirkpatrick, John, ed. 1991. Charles E. Ives: Memos. Scranton, PA: W. W. Norton.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kogan, J. 1987. Nothing but the best: The struggle for perfection at the Juilliard school. New York: Random House.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koskoff, Ellen. 1991. Gender, power, and music. In The musical woman: An international perspective, volume III 1986–1990, Judith L. Zaimont, Jane Gottlieb, Joanne Polk, and Michael J. Rogan, eds., 769–788. New York: Greenwood Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koza, Julia Eklund. 1993. The “missing males” and other gender issues in music education: Evidence from the Music Supervisors’ Journal, 1914–1924. Journal of Research in Music Education, 41: 212–232.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • La Rue, Hélène. 1994. Music, literature and etiquette: Musical instruments and social identity from Castiglione to Austen. In Ethnicity, identity, and music: The musical construction of place, Martin Stokes, ed., 189–206. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lamb, Roberta. 1993/1994. Aria senza accompagnamento: A woman behind the theory. The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, 4–5( 4, 1): 5–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lamb, Roberta. 1995. Tone deaf/Symphonies singing: Sketches for a musicale. In Gender in/forms curriculum: From enrichment to transformation, J. Gaskell and J. Willinsky, eds., 109–135. New York: Teachers College Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lamb, Roberta. 1996. Discords: Feminist pedagogy in music education. Theory into Practice, 35(2): 124–131.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McClary, Susan. 1994. Same as it ever was: Youth culture and music. In Microphone fiends: Youth music and youth culture, Andrew Ross and Tricia Rose, eds., 29–40. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Munt, Sally R. 1998. Heroic desire: Lesbian identity and cultural space. London and Washington: Cassell.

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Toole, Patricia. 1994. I sing in a choir, but I have no voice! The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, 4–5(5, 1): 65–76.

    Google Scholar 

  • Persson, R. 1996. The maestro music teacher and musicians’ mental health. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, August: Toronto, ON.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popkewitz, Thomas S., Gustafson, Ruth. 2002. Standards of music education and the easily administered child/citizen: The alchemy of pedagogy and social inclusion/exclusion. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 10(2), 80–91.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1990. Epistemology of the closet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shepherd, John. 1991. Music as social text. Cambridge, England: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shepherd, John. 1993. Difference and power in music. In Musicology and difference: Gender and sexuality in music scholarship, Ruth A. Solie, ed., 46–65. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, Valerie. 1998. Not just race, not just gender: Black feminist readings. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stokes, Martin. 1994. Introduction: Ethnicity, identity and music. In Ethnicity, identity and music: The musical construction of place, Martin Stokes, ed., 1–28. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tschaikov, Basil, ed. 2001. Physical and emotional hazards of a performing career. London: Taylor and Francis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Valentine, Gill. 1996. (Re)negotiating the “heterosexual street”: Lesbian productions of space. In Bodyspace: Destabilizing geographies of gender and sexuality, Nancy Duncan, ed., 146–155. London and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Toronto, Toronto, ONT, Canada

    Elizabeth Gould

Authors
  1. Elizabeth Gould
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Music, State University of New York, Fredonia, 14063, U.S.A.

    Thomas A. Regelski

  2. Saranac Drive 9053, St. Louis, 63117, U.S.A.

    J. Terry Gates

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Gould, E. (2009). Dis-Orientations of Desire: Music Education Queer. In: Regelski, T., Gates, J. (eds) Music Education for Changing Times. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2700-9_5

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation