Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays

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This book gathers together essays on the great British composer. These essays opened the door to gay studies in music, reinvigorated the study of Britten's work, and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine “the new musicology.” Addressing questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural,...

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Main Author: Brett, Philip (Author)
Other Authors: Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958- (writer of afterword.), Haggerty, George E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkely, Calif. : University of California Press, 2006
Subjects:
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976. > Operas.
Composers > Great Britain > Biography.
Sex in music.
Gender identity in music.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Remembering Philip Brett
  • 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 : for Sue-Ellen Case
  • 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.

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