Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide

Middlebrow Modernism Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2019]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:California studies in 20th-century music ; 24.
Materias:
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976. > Operas.
Music > 20th century > Philosophy and esthetics.
Modernism (Music) > History > 20th century.
Opera > 20th century.
20th century music.
aesthetic oppositions.
aesthetics.
audiences.
benjamin britten.
composers.
consonance.
critics.
cultural hierarchies.
great divide.
historiography.
lyricism.
mass culture.
mid century discussions.
modernism.
music history and criticism.
music history.
music.
opera music.
opera.
prestige.
shades of grey.
theatrical spectacle.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Middlebrow modernism
  • Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes
  • The timely traditions of Albert Herring
  • The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism
  • The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch
  • Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.

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