Siren Songs : Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera /

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It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologi...

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Otros Autores: Allanbrook, Wye Jamison (Contribuidor), Auner, Joseph Henry (Contribuidor), Bergeron, Katherine (Contribuidor), Brett, Philip (Contribuidor), Brooks, Peter (Contribuidor), Clement, Catherine (Contribuidor), Feldman, Martha (Contribuidor), Hadlock, Heather (Contribuidor), Hunter, Mary (Contribuidor), Hutcheon, Linda (Contribuidor), Hutcheon, Michael (Contribuidor), Kramer, Lawrence (Contribuidor), Parker, Roger (Contribuidor), Smart, Mary Ann (Contribuidor, Editor ), Wheelock, Gretchen A. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Opera ; 34
Temas:
Feminism and music > Congresses.
Sex in opera > Congresses.
Women in opera > Congresses.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Through Voices, History
  • The Absent Mother in Opera Seria
  • Staging Mozart's Women
  • The Career of Cherubino, or the Trouser Role Grows Up
  • Elisabeth's Last Act
  • Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera
  • Ulterior Motives: Verdi's Recurring Themes Revisited
  • Melisande's Hair, or the Trouble in Allemande: A Postmodern Allegory at the Opera-Comique
  • Opera: Two or Three Things I Know about Her
  • Staging the Female Body: Richard Strauss's Salome
  • "Soulless Machines" and Steppenwolves: Renegotiating Masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf
  • "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes
  • Notes
  • Index

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