Masculinity and western musical practice / edited by Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biddle, Ian D.

Gibson, Kirsten, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in music.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]

Contents:

Effeminate and virile musics and masculinities. Music and masculinity in the Middle Ages

Music, melancholy, and masculinity in early modern England

Of Mars I sing: Monteverdi voicing virility

Haydn and the consequences of presumed effeminacy

Virile music by Hector Berlioz

National masculinities, national musics. Gendered reception of Brahms: masculinity, nationalism and musical politics

Aspiring to manliness: Edward Elgar and the pressures of hegemonic masculinity

'I am blessed with fruit': masculinity, androgyny and creativity in early twentieth-century German music

Hellenism, the divine and ideal masculinity in Manuel de Fall's 'Atlantida'

Identities, voices, discourses. Knives and tears: representations of masculinity in late nineteenth-century Italian opera

Caught in the silken throat: modernist investments in the male vocal fetish

Hermaphrodism and the masculine body: Tippett's aesthetic views in a gendered context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754662396

075466239X

OCLC:

276139314