Balen, Julia,  1955- <br/><br/>
A queerly joyful noise :  choral musicking for social justice / 
Julia "Jules" Balen. 
 - New Brunswick :  Rutgers University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource (vii, 211 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Why Choruses?""; ""Part One: Finding Our Voices""; ""Chapter 1: Singing as Counterstorying Practice""; ""Chapter 2: Choral Musicking for Change""; ""Part Two: Queer Organizing for Social Change""; ""Chapter 3: Practices of Identity: Queering Social Institutions""; ""Chapter 4: Queer Choral Musicking: Cultural Contexts""; ""Chapter 5: Choral Technologies for Queering""; ""Part Three: Communal Erotics and Social Justice""; ""Chapter 6: Emotions, Identities, and Choral Musicking"" ""Chapter 7: Communal Erotics: Choral Musicking and Our Capacity for Joy""""Acknowledgments""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 
<br/><br/> A Queerly Joyful Noise investigates why so many LGBTIQ people are drawn to choral music and how queer chorus members create an experience that is beautiful and politically impactful. Julia ""Jules"" Bal#65533;n vividly conveys how queer choruses can collectively empower their singers and serve as progressive rallying calls for their listeners. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813588414 9780813588407 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017027500 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Choral singing--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Choral singing--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Gay choirs--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML3917  / .Q447 2017