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878665
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Brett, Philip.
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Music and Sexuality in Britten : : Selected Essays.
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| Publication Statement
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CA :: University of California Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (296 pages)
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0520939123
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: 9780520939127
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0520246098
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0520246101
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9780520246096
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9780520246102
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
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| Contents
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0-520-24610-1-frontcover.pdf; 0-520-24610-1-text.pdf; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Rembering Philip Brett; 1 Britten and Grimes; 2 "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in theLibrettos of Peter Grimes; 3 Grimes and Lucretia; 4 Salvation at Sea: Britten's Billy Budd; 5 Character and Caricature in Albert Herring; 6 Britten's Bad Boys: Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw; 7 Britten's Dream; 8 Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas; 9 Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors.
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10 Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor11 Auden's Britten; 12 The Britten Era; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX: PHILIP BRETT'SBRITTEN SCHOLARSHIP; WORKS CITED; INDEX.
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| Abstract
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Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of Britten's work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, Bre.
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Britten, Benjamin,1913-1976., Operas.
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Composers-- Great Britain, Biography.
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Gender identity in music.
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Sex in music.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Composers Musicians.
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Composers.
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Gender identity in music.
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MUSIC-- Individual Composer Musician.
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Sex in music.
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Operas (Britten, Benjamin)
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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780.92782.1092
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ML410.B853 B64 2006
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Doctor, Jenny.
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Haggerty, George E.
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McClary, Susan.
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