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currentmusicology-5082	Raykoff, Ivan	Review of Peraino, Judith. 2006. Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press	2006	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3099	90	35	Plato's anxieties about music and social order continue to resonate in the present era, as Peraino notes with a nod to Allan Bloom's paroxysm over Mick Jagger's ambiguous sexuality and to the 1997 US Senate hearings on music violence (discussed more extensively later in the book). Peraino's roadmap is inviting: the premise of the book, in part following Adorno, is the idea that music has always opened a space for ambivalence, productively serving the complexities of personal identity and subjectivity; at the same time it has also provoked anxiety, society's frequent response in trying to contain those complexities through categorical hierarchies and ideological superstructures.	cache/currentmusicology-5082.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5082.txt