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Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B853 B64 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brett, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Operas.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Composers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Composers.
- Great Britain.
- Sex in music.
- Gender identity in music.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 280 pages : music ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- 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, Brett examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. With some of the essays appearing here for the first time, this volume develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that Brett expanded the borders of his field.
- Contents:
- Britten and Grimes
- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes
- Grimes and Lucretia
- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd
- Character and caricature in Albert Herring
- Britten's bad boys : male relations in The turn of the screw
- Britten's dream
- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas
- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Purcell, and his English predecessors
- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor
- Auden's Britten
- The Britten era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520246098
- 0520246101
- OCLC:
- 63245520
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520246096
- 9780520246102
- Online:
- Publisher description
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