Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays

Title
  1. 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.
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  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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  1. Publisher description
Author
  1. Brett, Philip.

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  1. Haggerty, George E.
Description
  1. xiv, 280 p. : music; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Sex in music
  2. Composers > Great Britain > Biography
  3. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 > Operas
  4. Gender identity in music
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JME 06-1103
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
Author
  1. Brett, Philip.
Title
  1. 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
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
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  1. Table of contents only
  2. Publisher description
Added author
  1. Haggerty, George E.
LCCN
  1. 2006003045
Other standard identifier
  1. 9780520246096
  2. 9780520246102
ISBN
  1. 0520246098 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0520246101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  3. 9780520246096
  4. 9780520246102
Research call number
  1. JME 06-1103
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