Susan McClary

"New" , author of Feminine Endings and Conventional Wisdom

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• "Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential." from http://www.ucla.edu/spotlight/archive/html_2001_2002/fac0502_mcclalry.html

• "Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence."
  • "Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music", Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology (1994), ISBN 0415907527