Music and Sexuality in Britten : Selected Essays.

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Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the d...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brett, Philip
Otros Autores: Doctor, Jenny, Haggerty, George E., McClary, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CA : University of California Press, 2006.
Temas:
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976. > Operas.
Operas (Britten, Benjamin)
Composers > Great Britain > Biography.
Sex in music.
Gender identity in music.
Compositeurs > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Sexualité dans la musique.
Identité de genre dans la musique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Composers
Gender identity in music
Sex in music
Great Britain
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 0-520-24610-1-frontcover.pdf; 0-520-24610-1-text.pdf; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Rembering Philip Brett; 1 Britten and Grimes; 2 "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in theLibrettos of Peter Grimes; 3 Grimes and Lucretia; 4 Salvation at Sea: Britten's Billy Budd; 5 Character and Caricature in Albert Herring; 6 Britten's Bad Boys: Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw; 7 Britten's Dream; 8 Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas; 9 Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors.
  • 10 Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor11 Auden's Britten; 12 The Britten Era; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX: PHILIP BRETT'SBRITTEN SCHOLARSHIP; WORKS CITED; INDEX.

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