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1 online resource (296 pages) |
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text file |
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0-520-24610-1-frontcover.pdf; 0-520-24610-1-text.pdf; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Rembering Philip Brett; 1 Britten and Grimes; 2 "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in theLibrettos of Peter Grimes; 3 Grimes and Lucretia; 4 Salvation at Sea: Britten's Billy Budd; 5 Character and Caricature in Albert Herring; 6 Britten's Bad Boys: Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw; 7 Britten's Dream; 8 Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas; 9 Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors. |
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10 Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor11 Auden's Britten; 12 The Britten Era; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX: PHILIP BRETT'SBRITTEN SCHOLARSHIP; WORKS CITED; INDEX. |
| Summary |
Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of Britten's work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, Bre. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Operas.
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Operas (Britten, Benjamin) |
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Composers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Great Britain. |
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Biographies.
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Sex in music.
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Sex in music. |
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Gender identity in music.
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Gender identity in music. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
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Haggerty, George E.
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McClary, Susan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brett, Philip. Music and Sexuality in Britten : Selected Essays. CA : University of California Press, ©2006 9780520246096 |
| ISBN |
9780520939127 (electronic book) |
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0520939123 (electronic book) |
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0520246098 (alkaline paper) |
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0520246101 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520246102 |
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9780520246096 |
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