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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Main Author: Brett, Philip
Other Authors: McClary, Susan, Haggerty, George E., Doctor, Jenny
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976. > Operas.
Operas (Britten, Benjamin)
Sex in music.
Gender identity in music.
Composers.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Identite sexuelle dans la musique.
Sexualite dans la musique.
Compositeurs > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Composers > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of Britten's work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, Bre.
Physical Description:1 online resource (295 pages).
ISBN:9780520939127

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