Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective
Publication Date
10-31-2006
Document Type
Contribution to a Book
Publication Title
Queering the Pitch
Editor
Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C Thomas
DOI
10.4324/9780203944189-21
First Page
275
Last Page
296
Abstract
Being a lesbian makes a difference, transforms the thought/action process that is composition. To make such a claim is not an invitation to an old essentialism/constructionism debate, but to be in movement beyond static and deterministic categories. e attitude to the world made possible by both music and lesbian sexuality opens routes to an involved, attentive materiality/temporality. is calls forth discussion of three subjects that are normally taboo by themselves, let alone in combination: sexuality, the process of creativity, and ontology. By ontology I do not mean any closed system, but an active sense that the experience/process of Be-ing2 and knowing-i.e., living-is real: “It has all the meaning we can make of it.”3
Department
Humanities
Recommended Citation
Jennifer Rycenga. "Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective" Queering the Pitch (2006): 275-296. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203944189-21
