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Masculinity in Opera.

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purvis, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge research in music.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Masculinity in Opera; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Performing Masculinity/Masculinity in Performance; PART I Voicing Masculinity; 2 Soprano Masculinities; 3 Pitch Fever: The Castrato, the Tenor, and the Question of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Opera; 4 Russian Opera Rebels: Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, Nikolai Figner and the Rise of the Tenor Antihero; 5 The Erotics of Masculinity in Zeffirelli's Film Otello; PART II Troubling Masculinity; 6 Saint-Saëns's Samson; 7 More Cases of Wagner; 8 Britten and the Deadlock of Identity Politics.
  • 9 Giving Adam Voice: Troubling Gender and Identity in W.A. Mozart's Zaide and Chaya Czernowin's AdamaPART III Troubled Masculinity; 10 Opera's Unconscious, or What Men Don't Say; 11 Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man: Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler; 12 The 'Crisis' of Masculinity in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias; Contributors; Index.