[ANPPOM-L] Announcing winner of the Philip Brett award

[Carlos Palombini]

It is my pleasure to bring to your attention this year's winner of
the Philip Brett award, Judith A. Peraino's Listening to the Sirens:
Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig, now
available from the University of California Press.

Listening to the Sirens is nothing less than a critical history of
queer perspectives in Western music, since its roots in times and
places that are only nominally Western at all--up to the present day.
Moreover, Peraino has dared to undertake this massive project on as
many different levels of discourse as possible: from historical
context, to moment-by-moment musical analysis, to commentary on
performativity, to personal reminiscence, to far-flung, adroit
association among works or artists in separate centuries, to deftly
handled critical theory. Last but not least, the author dares to
attempt all this in a lucid, conversational and coherent writing
style.  And she succeeds brilliantly, in a manner that would surely
have impressed and pleased her mentor Philip Brett; indeed it is not
too much to claim that this book has the potential to revivify and
transform queer musicology as a whole.

For more information go to: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/
10098.html

Elisabeth Le Guin
Chair, Philip Brett Award Committee
Associate Professor of Musicology
University of California, Los Angeles
leguin em humnet.ucla.edu

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carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>