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Anthology of New Music: Trans and Nonbinary Voices (on order). collection of 21 vocal works for trans and nonbinary voices composed exclusively in the 21st century, represent a broad range of compositional styles. Song selection based on 1) the composer is trans or nonbinary, 2) the librettist/lyricist is trans or nonbinary, 3) the work was composed specifically for or was premiered by a trans or nonbinary singer.

LGBTQ2S+ and Music

 Queerness in pop music : aesthetics, gender norms, and temporality.

Queer country

Heavy metal, gender and sexuality

Queering freedom : music, identity, and spirituality. Anthology with perspectives from ten countries

Breaking down the walls of heartache : how music came out. Popular music's queer past, present, and future. A social and musical history spanning 100 years, starting in the British music halls and Harlem blues clubs of the early 20th century.

Singing out : GALA choruses and social change. Hisoptry and cultural examination of Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). 

Queer opera: Explores narratives and music of selected operas to argue that composers have turned to opera to underscore lived queer experiences and that they have served as agents for change.

Queering vocal pedagogy : a handbook for teaching trans and genderqueer singers and fostering gender-affirming spaces

The singing teacher's guide to transgender voices

The second sound : conversations on gender and music. Includes: Is the under-representation of women and LGBTQ people in the field a symptom or a cause? Is art itself gendered? And can it reflect the gender of its maker?

David Bowie Made Me Gay : 100 Years of LGBT Music (on order)

The Oxford handbook of music and queerness. Ongoing publication.

Queering Musicology

Queering the Field: Sounding out ethnomusicology. Drawing on ethnographic research and personal experiences with musical cultures, unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology. 

 Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology. Includes landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. 

Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity. Explores points of intersection between music  and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950  through stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoire, venues, and specific works.

LGBTQ+ Scholarship

The LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society: Resource section includes bibliography indexes music scholarship that features material on gender diversity, queer identity, culture, knowledge, or practice, or that approaches its topic from a queer, transgender, or anti-oppressive perspective. Prcides sample of syllabuses for LGBTQ, Gender, and Sexuality Courses in Music.

Archives of the LBTQ+ Encyclopedia Project

LGBTQ+ Composers and Associations

Composer list ained at the University of Texas Libraries

GALA Chorusessupports. guides, and inspires LGBTQ+ choruses and their allies

LEGATO: European Association of LGBTQ+ Choirs

Lesbian and Gay Band Association

Subject Headings

Gay musicians

Gender identity in music

Homosexuality and music

Transgender musicians