ARTS:
MUSIC/MUSIQUE
SEE ALSO the BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/INTERVIEWS
section
of this bibliography.
Ayotte, Dana, and Gullion, Jacqueline.
“Saying the F-word: Feminism, Indie-rock Style.” Canadian Woman Studies
25 (3/4) (Summer 2006): 137-140.
Vancouver; The Stunts, all-lesbian indie-rock band.
Cain, Roy.
“Singing Out and Making Community: Gay Men and Choral Singing.”
In Doing Ethnography: Studying Everyday Life, chapter 23 (pp. 312-322).
Edited by Dorothy Pawluch, William Shaffir, and Charlene Miall.
Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005.
Elliott, Robin.
“Performing k.d. lang.” Canadian Woman Studies 24(2-3) (Winter/Spring
2005): 160+
Fig Trees.
SEE entry at Greyson, John, in the ARTS – GENERAL section, above.
Fleming, Lee, ed.
Hot Licks: Lesbian Musicians
of Note.
(135 p.; ISBN 0921881428)
“Freedom to
Love.” [Vancouver, B.C.?]: Aural Tradition Records ;
Emeryville, CA:
Redwood Records, 1989.
(1 compact sound disc)
Broader than subject of this bibliography.
Participants: Faith Nolan, guitar and vocals; with
assisting musicians.
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession nos. 42565970 and
42553366, in which one of assigned descriptors is
“Gay liberation
movement –
with other descriptors concerning Blacks and feminism.
Gagnon-Doré,
Jean.
“Terrains
vacants: dialogues autour de la chanson gaie.”
Chansons
19(5) (1996): 10-15.
“Présentation
de quelques chanteurs et chanteuses homosexuel
québécois:
Lucie Blue Tremblay, Frankline, l’ensemble vocal Ganymède,
Ginette
Bergeron, The Flirtations et Geneviève Paris” – Repère résumé.
Gibb, Joel, 1977-
Awoo. Toronto: EvilEvil, 2006.
(1 compact sound disc)
Ref.: Seminal, p. 340 (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section)
Gibb, Joel, 1977-
Hidden Cameras Play the BBC Sessions. London: Rough Trade, 2003.
(1 compact sound disc)
Ref.: Seminal, p. 340 (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section)
Gibb, Joel,
1977-
Homo
Ecce. Toronto: EvilEvil, 2001.
(1 compact sound disc)
Ref.: Seminal, p. 340 (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section)
Gibb, Joel, 1977-
Learning the Lie. Toronto: EvilEvil, 2005.
(1 compact sound disc)
Ref.: Seminal, p. 340 (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section)
Gibb, Joel, 1977-
Mississauga
Goddamn. Toronto: EvilEvil, 2004.
(1 compact sound disc)
Ref.: Seminal, p. 340 (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section)
Gibb, Joel, 1977-
The Smell of Our Own. By the Hidden Cameras; words and music by
Joel Gibb. Toronto: Evil Evil, p2003.
(1 compact sound disc; Publisher no. 002 Evil Evil)
Ref. AMICUS catalogue no. 28122251, which provides the following
information: Composer and group are Canadian; descriptors
assigned are Popular music and Male homosexuality – Songs and music.
CD contents are the following: Golden streams; Ban marriage; A miracle;
The animals of prey; Smells like happiness; Day is dawning; Boys of
melody; Shame; Breathe on it; The man that I am with my man.
Hepburn, Allan.
“Perfectly Normal:
Queer Opera in
Canadian Theatre Review 96
(Fall 1998): 34-38 (3284 words).
Discusses
the 1991 movie, Perfectly Normal, Brad Walton’s 1994
comic
opera, “The Loves of Wayne Gretzky” [“queer sensibility”],
“Mario
and the Magician” (1992), Atom Egoyan’s libretto for
“Elsewhereless”
(1998) with three gay characters, etc.
Hot Licks: Lesbian
Musicians of Note.
SEE entry at Fleming, Lee, in
this section.
“lang, k. d. (b. 1961),” by Susan Taylor. In Who’s Who in Contemporary Gay and
Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, p. 238. Edited by
Robert Aldrich and Garry
Wotherspoon.
Popular musician.
Lang, K. D.
Watershed. [S.l.]: Nonesuch, p2008.
(1
compact disc; Nonesuch/Warner Music
Ref.:
Xtra! [
Top 10). Notes that music critic John Webster has written that
“[t]his is the most romantic Sapphic album ever made….”
MacIsaac, Ashley, with
Francis Condron.
Fiddling with
Disaster. Toronto:
Warwick
Publishing, 2003.
(ISBN 1894622332)
McGehee, Peter.
The Fabulous Sirs. Music and lyrics by Peter McGehee; additional material by
Fiji Champagne Robinson. Toronto: [Fabulous Sirs], 1988.
Ref.: University of Saskatchewan SRSD Website list, viewed Feb. 24/09.
McIntyre, David L.
Watershed Stories. By David L. McIntyre; as sung by the Prairie Pride Chorus.
Regina,
(1 compact sound disc)
Refs.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34688100, which lists contents (and
see also AMICUS record no. 34688128 for reference to 60-page score);
University of Saskatchewan Library SRSD Website (viewed Feb. 24/09),
which notes: “…cycle of sixteen songs he wrote based upon the life
experiences of the choir members.”
Perron, Gilles.
“L’Homosexualité dans la
chanson [québécoise]: du bout des lèvres.”
Québec
français, no. 124, hiver
2001-2002, pp. 46-48.
“Analyse de deux
textes: “Deux vieilles” de Clémence DesRochers
et
“Lomer” de Richard Desjardins” – Repère résumé.
Pride: A Gay Pride Celebration.
Markham, Ont.: Polydor : Distributed by Polygram Group Canada, p1997.
(1 compact disc; publisher number 314 553 743-2, Polydor)
Extent of Canadian content unknown. AMICUS catalogue notes
that songs are by various performers and that disc “includes
Brenda Stubbert performed by Ashley MacIsaac.”
PrideVision TV, Outside the Box. [Canada]: PrideVisionTV, 2001.
(1 compact sound disc)
Ref.: OCLC record no. 49653562, which notes that disc
presents two of Canada’s “finest club DJs” and is for
promotional use only. Mentions also that first mix selected by Mark
Scaife; second selected by Peter Nomad. Descriptors
assigned include “Lesbians – Canada – Music,” “Gays – Canada –
Music,” and “Transsexuals – Canada – Music.”
Queer & Now.
SEE Videos section of this list.
Russell, Craig, 1948-
Glamour Monster. Toronto: Change Records International, [1988?].
(1 sound recording (33 1/3 rpm);
Record label no. CRI87-0101)
Ref.: N. Richards communication.
See also AMICUS catalogue record no. 8940863, which applies
descriptor Popular music.
Sweet Inspiration.
(1 compact disc; publisher no.
AVWC2000, A Vancouver Women’s Chorus) Much broader
than scope of this bibliography, but AMICUS catalogue record shows
that track 16 includes the Rainy City Gay Men’s Chorus and the Vancouver Lesbian &
Gay Choir. Tremblay, Lucie Blue. Transformations. [S.l.: Olivia Records, 1993?] (1 compact disc?) Ref.: N. Richards
communication. There are other
albums by her, including Lucie Blue Tremblay (1986); Tendresse (1992); I’m Ready
(1998); Because of You (2001); It’s Got to Be about Love (2004) – from Wikipedia entry for Lucie Blue Tremblay, viewed these works by
the “Canadian folk singer-songwriter.” Tremblay, Pierre, et Denis, Alain. “Détruire
le mythe de la grande folle: Bronski Beat.” Québec
rock 92 (avril 1985): 20-21. “Les
orientations sexuelles de ce groupe de musique rock [etc.]”-- Repère résumé. Udovitch, Mim. “K.D.
Lang: So How Did This Lesbian, Feminist, Vegetarian Canadian Win
a Grammy and the Hearts of August
5, 1993, p. 54. Vancouver Men’s Chorus. “Encore: [A
Twenty-five Year Tribute].” Vancouver:
The Chorus, [2006]. (1 compact sound disc; 4 ¾ in.) Ref.: AMICUS catalogue
record no. 33095136, which applies descriptors Gay men –
Music, Gay men – Vancouver – Music, and others. AMICUS record
also lists the musical works on the disc,
noting that songs are chiefly in English, with one in French and one in
Spanish. Webb-Campbell, Shannon.
<“Charisma: Big Voice, Big Songs.” Xtra! [Toronto], May 21, 2009, p. 43. About Jeffery Straker, rural Saskatchewan / Toronto artist, who has, to
date, produced three albums. The latest characterized as cabaret-pop. Also has made videos. Article gives further details and artist comments.