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Women in American Operas of the 1950s : Undoing Gendered Archetypes /
"In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera repertory that would be deeply responsive to American culture and American concerns. They did not break free, however, of the age-old paradigm so typically expressed in European opera: that is, of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Rochester :
University of Rochester Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- American Opera at Midcentury
- A Conniving Gold Digger : Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor
- A "Really Vicious Monster" : Lizzie Andrew Borden
- A Chaste White Woman : Laurie Moss
- A Dangerous Jezebel : Susannah Polk
- Epilogue "The World So Wide" : Beyond the Virgin or the Whore in the Twenty-First Century.