Music & Camp

Name: Music & Camp
Author: Christopher Moore, Philip Purvis

This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, the book provides new research into camp's presence, techniques, discourses, and potential meanings across a broad spectrum of musical genres, including: musical theatre, classical music, film music, opera, instrumental music, the Broadway musical, rock, pop, hip-hop, and Christmas carols. This significant contribution to the field of camp studies investigates why and how music has served as an expressive and political vehicle for both the aesthetic characteristics and the receptive modes that have been associated with camp throughout twentieth and twenty-first-century culture.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Christopher Moore, Philip Purvis

Christopher Moore is associate professor of musicology at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses primarily on French music of the twentieth century, which he examines in relationship to questions of criticism, style, gender, identity, and politics. Wesleyan University Press published his newest book Music & Camp in 2018. His research has been published in 19th Century Music, Music & Politics and The Journal of Musicology. He received the Philip Brett Award from the American Musicology Society in 2012.