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" Liebe und Leben: "
Reece, Tyler Michael-Anthony
Brecher, Benjamin
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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915710
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TL90m3844k
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Reece, Tyler Michael-Anthony
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Liebe und Leben:\ Reece, Tyler Michael-AnthonyBrecher, Benjamin
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UC Santa Barbara
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2019
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2019
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The paper examines Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman’s Love and Life), which has long been staple in the standard nineteenth-century lieder repertory for singers, but almost exclusively for female performers. Despite early performances by baritone Julius Stockhausen, male performers have shied away from this cycle, as well as other lieder that are typically considered feminine. This study reaches back to the contextual issues that coincide with the history and practice of this repertory. In particular, I use the historical evidence of the Moral Purity Movement (1890-1945) and such discourses to reveal a critical primary source of homophobic rhetoric that may have dissuaded male singers from performing the cycle. Led by the Church and disgruntled male workers, whose jobs were vulnerable to the growing numbers of women entering the workplace, this conservative social movement campaigned using biblical rhetoric that supported traditional gender roles and relations. Unfortunately for Berlin’s blossoming queer community in the 1890s, any individuals who did not conform to “Christian” ideals fell victim to these smears. I argue that male performers during that time may have been influenced by societal homophobia in their seemingly unanimous decision to avoid the feminine repertoire, such as Frauenliebe und Leben.
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Brecher, Benjamin
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UC Santa Barbara
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