Call for Paper - Bisexuality in Music

Bisexuality in Music: A Call for Papers

For much of its history, bisexuality has barely been recognized as a legitimate topic for historical or theoretical discourse of any sort. Indeed, for many, bisexuality has often seemed little more than a question, at best.
"Does bisexuality really even exist?" Only within the last decade or so has scholarship in the humanities begun to acknowledge, theorize and historicize this seemingly liminal aspect of human identity. Music scholarship in particular, much of which continues to perpetuate heterosexual-homosexual dichotomies, has yet to adequately acknowledge bisexuality, its place, histories and theories in music. In an effort to address this obvious lacuna, the editors and board members of the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society propose the next issue of The Newsletter be devoted to the topic of Bisexuality in Music. General questions we wish to pose for this special issue include: Does bisexuality exist in music? If so, how so? In what ways and in what permutations do we encounter bisexuality in music? Do these permutations follow queer pathways, or rather their own? We invite submissions on all aspects of bisexuality and music and offer the following rubrics as suggestions for essay topics:
bisexuality and its significance to the lives of musicians; the musical
performance of bisexuality; bisexuality and voice; popular music and
bisexuality; operatic bisexuality/bisexual opera; historiographies of
music and bisexuality; exploring analytical theories and methodologies
of bisexuality and music.

Suggestions, questions and submissions may be sent by September 1, 2006 to:
Robert Torre
Rose Theresa
ratorre@wisc.edu
rose.theresa@title9music.org