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Kasahara and Iwaasa in Conversation by Kasahara, Teiya; Iwaasa, Rachel Kiyo; Coale, Rebecca Wiegand is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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edited by Rebecca Wiegand Coale T he "Race-ing Queer Music Scholarship 2016" symposium featured a concert by soprano Teiya Kasahara and pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa. The program included "Solana's Song" from Canada's fi rst lesbian opera, When the Sun Comes Out, with music by Leslie Uyeda and words by Rachel Rose; "And so I killed a man tonight" from The Laurels, by Jeff rey Ryan; and Cursor 7, by Hiroki Tsurumoto. Videos of their performance can be viewed at http:// ams -lgbtq .org /race -ing -queer -music -scholarship/. For this special issue of the journal, Women & Music asked Teiya and Rachel to share some thoughts on race, queerness, and their experiences of navigating the performance world. Below is a lightly edited transcript of the refl ections they shared. Rachel: My name is Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa. I am a contemporary music pianist. My pronoun is she. I am half-white. And I am queer. If you see me, you probably read me as a woman before I say a word. And if my features don't give away my Japanese ancestry, my name does. But queers are oft en an invisible minority. And as a bi femme, I oft en feel doubly invisible. For you to know I'm queer, you probably have to see me with my ve

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Author

Kasahara, Teiya; Iwaasa, Rachel Kiyo; Coale, Rebecca Wiegand

Publisher

Project MUSE (ISSN 1553-0612)

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)