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From the erotic to the demonic : on critical musicology / Derek B. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Derek B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Style, Musical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text should prove useful as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. It demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND MUSICAL STYLE
- 1 Erotic Representation from Monteverdi to Mae West
- 2 The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics
- PART TWO: IDEOLOGY AND THE POPULAR
- 3 The Native American in Popular Music
- 4 Incongruity and Predictability in British Dance Band Music of the 1920s and 1930s
- PART THREE: THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
- 5 Lux in Tenebris: Bruckner and the Dialectic of Darkness and Light
- 6 Diabolus in Musica: Liszt and the Demonic
- PART FOUR: IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL OTHERNESS
- 7 Orientalism and Musical Style
- 8 The Impact of African-American Music Making on the European Classical Tradition in the 1920s
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028817-5
- 9786610532438
- 0-19-534377-8
- 1-280-53243-2
- 1-4337-0009-3
- 1-4237-6306-8
- 0-19-515196-8
- OCLC:
- 65196921
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