Book Launch: Imagining Musical Pasts
January 10, 6:00-8:00 pm
Librairie Résonance Bookstore
40, rue Beaubien Est, Montreal
Please join us for an in-person book launch celebration for Imagining Musical Pasts starting around 6pm on January 10 at Librairie Résonance (40 Beaubien E)! The event will consist of a presentation and Q&A with the author, with refreshments provided by Librairie Résonance. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
About the Book: Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Clemson University Press) focuses primarily on three turn-of-the-twentieth-century musicologists–philosopher and horror writer Vernon Lee (pseud. Violet Paget), biographer and program note annotator Rosa Newmarch, and critic and amateur sexologist Edward Prime-Stevenson. It examines the strategies Lee, Newmarch, and Prime-Stevenson each used to find ways of addressing (or, in some cases, strategically not addressing) the subjects of gender and sexuality in their scholarly and creative work several decades prior to the development of any kind of organized feminist or queer approaches to musicology. This book also explores the place of musicology as a form of literature, as well as the role of gossip, fiction, and speculation in constructing music histories.
More information (including details about distribution and available formats) is available at the book’s companion website: https://imaginingmusicalpasts.hcommons.org/about-the…/
About the Author
Kristin M. Franseen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, where her work is supported by a Knowledge Mobilization Plan Grant from the FRQSC. Her research focuses on unreliable sources in the history of musicology and composer biography and appears in a variety of publications, including Music & Letters, 19th-Century Music, the Cahiers de la SQRM, and VAN Magazine. She is currently in the preliminary stages of a new project on gossip, fiction, and misinformation in Antonio Salieri’s reception history.