Both Dorf and Moore’s writing raise issues of gender and sexuality that had been excluded from meaningful examination in musicology through much of the 20th century. Queer scholar Elizabeth Wood is a rare example among musicologists of that time, introducing the idea of Sapphonics in her first edition of Queering the Pitch in 1994. Wood […]
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Like these two bros, Poulenc’s and Satie’s music aligned, at least outwardly, with heteronormative expectations. By giving the music of Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc queer readings, Samuel Dorf and Christopher Moore use a largely unexplored lense to unearth greater insights to the works and perhaps the composer behind them. However, only Moore seals the […]