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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera
Other Authors: Smart, Mary Ann (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]
Series:Princeton studies in opera.
Subjects:
Women in opera > Congresses.
Sex in opera > Congresses.
Feminism and music > Congresses.
Femmes à l'opéra > Congrès.
Sexualité à l'opéra > Congrès.
Féminisme et musique > Congrès.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Women in opera
Sex in opera
Feminism and music
Opera
Sex
Women
Oper
Geschlechtsunterschied > Motiv
Kongress
Erotik > Motiv
Frauenrolle > Theater
Geschlechtsunterschied (Motiv)
Erotik (Motiv)
Frauenrolle (Theater)
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mary Ann Smart
  • Through voices, history / Catherine Clément
  • The absent mother in opera seria / Martha Feldman
  • Staging Mozart's women / Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. Wheelock
  • The career of Cherubino, or the trouser role grows up / Heather Hadlock
  • Elisabeth's last act / Roger Parker
  • Body and voice in melodrama and opera / Peter Brooks
  • Ulterior motives : Verdi's recurring themes revisited / Mary Ann Smart
  • Mélisande's hair, or the trouble in Allemonde : a postmodern allegory at the Opéra-Comique / Katherine Bergeron
  • Opera : two or three things I know about her / Lawrence Kramer
  • Staging the female body : Richard Strauss's Salome / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D.
  • "Soulless machines" and Steppenwolves : renegotiating masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Joseph Henry Auner
  • "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes / Philip Brett.

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