Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays
- Title
- Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.
- Published by
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xiv, 280 p. : music; 23 cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- JME 06-1103
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
- Author
- Brett, Philip.
- Title
- Music and sexuality in Britten : 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.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Haggerty, George E.
- LCCN
- 2006003045
- Other standard identifier
- 9780520246096
- 9780520246102
- ISBN
- 0520246098 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520246101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780520246096
- 9780520246102
- Research call number
- JME 06-1103