期刊名称：Nota Bene : Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology
印刷版ISSN：1920-8979
电子版ISSN：1920-8987
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：University of Western Ontario
摘要：The flourishing cultural movements in twentieth-century America were greatly indebted to and even directly fostered by various homosexual artistic communities. Scholars have only recently begun to consider the influence of such homosexual networks on American cultural development.1 A pervasive homophobia throughout the 1900s necessitated that a particular ethical code permeate homosexual artistic circles; reviled by the American public, homosexual artists largely refrained from revealing their sexual orientation and that of their colleagues, and avoided provoking conspiracy theories by denying (at least publicly) that such networks existed.2 Consequently, many gay artists employed art as a means of uncritical selfexpression, and for many gay American composers, musical identity was inseparable from queer identity.3?
