Middlebrow Modernism Britten's Operas and the Great Divide
Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture. Reviv...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
[2018]
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| Colección: | De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; 24. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43313279*spi |
| Sumario: | Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten's works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (244 p.) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780520970700 |
