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Music and sexuality in Britten selected essays

Title
Music and sexuality in Britten [electronic resource] : selected essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.
Author
Brett, Philip.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Haggerty, George E.
  • McClary, Susan.
  • Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
  • American Council of Learned Societies.
Found In
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Description
xiv, 280 p.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject
  • Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
  • Composers > Great Britain > Biography
  • Sex in music
  • Gender identity in music
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic text and image data.
Contents
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 -- 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.
OCLC
(dli)HEB09027
Author
Brett, Philip.
Title
Music and sexuality in Britten [electronic resource] : selected essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Series
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Haggerty, George E.
McClary, Susan.
Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
American Council of Learned Societies.
Found In:
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form:
Original 0520246098 0520246101 (DLC) 2006003045
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