| Description |
xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index. |
| Contents |
section 1. Effeminate and virile musics and masculinities -- Music and masculinity in the Middle Ages / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- Music, melancholy, and masculinity in early modern England / Kirsten Gibson -- Of Mars I sing : Monteverdi voicing virility / Richard Wistreich -- Haydn and the consequences of presumed effeminacy / Howard Irving -- Virile music by Hector Berlioz / Fred Everett Maus -- -- section 2. National masculinities, national musics -- Gendered reception of Brahms : masculinity, nationalism and musical politics / Marcia J. Citron -- Aspiring to manliness : Edward Elgar and the pressures of hegemonic masculinity / Corissa Gould -- 'I am blessed with fruit' : masculinity, androgyny and creativity in early twentieth-century German music / Claire Taylor-Jay -- Hellenism, the divine and ideal masculinity in Manuel de Falla's Atlántida / Esther Zaplana -- -- section 3. Identities, voices, discourses -- Knives and tears : representations of masculinity in late nineteenth-century Italian opera / Annamaria Cecconi -- Caught in the silken throat : modernist investments in the male vocal fetish / Ian Biddle -- Hermaphrodism and the masculine body : Tippett's aesthetic views in a gendered context / Iain Stannard. |
| Subject |
Masculinity in music.
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Masculinity in music. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Added Author |
Biddle, Ian D.
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Gibson, Kirsten, 1978-
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| ISBN |
9780754662396 hardcover alkaline paper |
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075466239X hardcover alkaline paper |
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