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Cover 1 Title Page, Other Works in the Series, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Ulterior Motives: Verdi's Recurring Themes Revisited 144 Publisher:Princeton University Press,Published:2014,ISBN:9781400866717,Related ISBN:9780691058139,Language:English,OCLC:899264851 It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. Th

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Author

Smart, Mary Ann., Representations Of Gender And Sexuality In Opera (1995 : Stony Brook, N.y.)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691058146

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Literary Fiction