Philip Brett Flashcards
1
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Literature
A
‘Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet’
2
Q
Commonality between homosexuality and musicality
A
“Though it is not been proscribed in the same way as homosexuality, music has often been considered a dangerous substance, an agent of moral ambiguity”
3
Q
Quotation from Mary McIntosh
A
She writes of a “specialized, despised and punished role” of homosexuality that helps to “keep the bulk of society pure”
4
Q
Long tradition of music as what…
A
“different, irrational, unaccountable”
5
Q
German canon
A
“The central German canon must at all costs be preserved in its purity.”
