Performing Sappho’s Fractured Archive, or Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and Works of Natalie Clifford Barney

Samuel N. Dorf
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This chapter excavates the remaining traces of pseudo-ancient Greek musical and dance performance that took place in Natalie Clifford Barney’s Parisian home in the first decades of the twentieth century. Barney’s discovery of Greek antiquity came about at the same time that she became aware of her own sexual identity. She perceived a freedom in the culture of ancient Lesbos and Athens that she felt was lacking in early twentieth-century American and French culture, and she used her passion for studying ancient Greek poetry under the tutelage of the best Greek scholars in Paris to channel both her creative and erotic interests in a very public way. This chapter focuses on the alterity of queer performance and reception within Barney’s Parisian circle by exploring how queer performance and identity were mapped in her cultural salon. The evidence of these performances remains in fragments, scattered across public and private collections, preserved in photographs, memoirs, letters, and anecdotes told third-hand. The chapter draws on theories of performance and queerness to make sense of the archival materials relating to re-enactment of ancient Greek dance and music hosted at the heiress’s home. This illustrates the role of ancient Greek–inspired music and dance in defining queer subjectivity in early twentieth-century Parisian salons. In piecing together fragments, this chapter offers new ways for musicologists to think about performance and the archive.
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表演萨福破碎的档案,或聆听娜塔莉·克利福德·巴尼生活和作品中的奇怪声音
本章挖掘了二十世纪头几十年发生在娜塔莉·克利福德·巴尼巴黎家中的伪古希腊音乐和舞蹈表演的残余痕迹。巴尼发现希腊古物的同时,她也开始意识到自己的性取向。她在古代莱斯博斯岛和雅典的文化中感受到了一种自由,她觉得这是20世纪早期美国和法国文化所缺乏的。她在巴黎最好的希腊学者的指导下,用她对研究古希腊诗歌的热情,以一种非常公开的方式,引导她的创造性和性兴趣。本章通过探索酷儿表演和身份如何在巴尼的巴黎圈子中被映射,重点关注酷儿表演和接受的另类。这些表演的证据仍然是碎片,散落在公共和私人收藏中,保存在照片、回忆录、信件和第三人称的轶事中。这一章借鉴了表演和酷儿的理论,以理解与在女继承人家中举办的古希腊舞蹈和音乐重现有关的档案材料。这说明了古希腊音乐和舞蹈在二十世纪早期巴黎沙龙中定义酷儿主体性的作用。通过拼凑碎片,本章为音乐学家提供了思考表演和档案的新途径。
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