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1 online resource (452 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: rethinking difference; Conceptual foundations; Genealogies of musical difference; The rise of difference-based musicological critique; Challenges to difference-based critique: ontology and ethics; Challenges to difference-based critique: politics; Rethinking difference in critical musicology; 2 He said, she said? Men hearing women in Medicean Florence. |
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Assumptions, conjectures and indications: the construction of a she said, he saidnarrativeExactly because I had been alerted by [them]I believed myself to bedeceived -- The erotic economy of song; 3 Race, empire, and early music; Historiographies of early modern race; Race in the Old Regime; Blackness in ballet and opera; Untimely historiographies of early music; 4 What Mr. Jefferson didn'thear; Making white music and black noise; Noise and Jefferson'sscientific racism; A different tune; Conclusion; 5 Difference and Enlightenment inHaydn's instrumental music. |
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Difference at the inception of modernityDifference and tolerance in late eighteenth-century music; Hearing hegemony in Haydn's ""Oxford""Symphony; Multiple publics and ""postmodern"" publicity in Haydn's ""Gypsy""Rondo; 6 Different masculinities: androgyny, effeminacy, and sentiment in Rossini'sLa donna del lago; Contested borders; Sentimental heroism; Rules of attraction: difference and likeness; Effeminacy in bel canto opera; Aristocratic masculinity: the king; Effeminacy and sentiment redux; 7 Composing racial difference in Madama Butterfly: tonal language and the power of Cio-Cio-San. |
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8 Maurice Ravel'sChants populaires and the exotic withinFolksong collection at the fin de siècle; Folksongs as exoticism; Stereotype and caricature; Ambivalence and reformation; 9 Diving into the earth:the musical worlds of Julius Eastman; To obtainwisdom -- A talentedfreak -- What happened?; Evil Nigger; Crazy Nigger; Gay Guerrilla; Hearing difference; 10 Synthesizing difference: the queer circuits of early synthpop; The queer ghost in the machine; Third sounds and the third sex: Walter/Wendy Carlos; The mechanics of humans; Short-circuiting identity. |
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11 Pranksta rap:humor as difference in hip hop12 Race and the aesthetics of vocal timbre; Introduction; The honest and healthyvoice; The post-Garcían voice: science in vocal pedagogy; Time and social power; The pedagogy of whiteness: racial taxonomies of vocal timbre; From voice as sound to voice as action; 13 Beneath difference; or, humanistic evolutionism; 14 Difference unthought; Whither modernities?; Modern pedagogies, pedagogies of the modern; Confronting difference; Otherwise modern -- yet undoubtedlymodern -- Demanding universals; Aesthetic equality. |
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Singularity without difference. |
| Summary |
This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Difference (Philosophy) in music.
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Difference (Philosophy) in music. |
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Gender identity in music.
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Gender identity in music. |
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Music and race.
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Music and race. |
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Electronic books.
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Bloechl, Olivia ashley 1975.
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Lowe, Melanie Diane, 1969-
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Kallberg, Jeffrey, 1954-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rethinking difference in music scholarship 9781107026674 (DLC) 2014020423 (OCoLC)882620069 |
| ISBN |
9781316203743 (electronic book) |
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1316203743 (electronic book) |
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9781107026674 |
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1107026679 |
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9781322560786 |
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1322560781 |
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9781139208451 |
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1139208454 |
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9781316207383 |
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1316207382 |
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