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UNINA9910452744603321 |
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McClary Susan |
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Feminine endings [[electronic resource] ] : music, gender, and sexuality / / Susan McClary ; with a new introduction |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2002 |
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0-8166-1898-4 |
0-8166-9505-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Feminism and music |
Sex in music |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Feminine Endings in Retrospect; 1. Introduction: A Material Girl in Bluebeard's Castle; 2. Constructions of Gender in Monteverdi's Dramatic Music; 3. Sexual Politics in Classical Music; 4. Excess and Frame: The Musical Representation of Madwomen; 5. Getting Down Off the Beanstalk: The Presence of a Woman's Voice in Janika Vandervelde's Genesis II; 6. This Is Not a Story My People Tell: Musical Time and Space According to Laurie Anderson; 7. Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U |
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<![CDATA[A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. ". . . this is a major book . . . [McClary's] achievement borders on the miraculous." The Village Voice"No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and interesting ways. Exciting reading for adventurous students and staid professionals." Choice"Feminine Endings, a provocative 'sexual politics' of Western classical or art music, rocks conservativ |
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UNINA9910451109003321 |
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Autore |
Brown Linda Joyce <1967-, > |
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The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era / / Linda Joyce Brown |
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New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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1-135-93242-5 |
1-280-17845-0 |
0-203-32772-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (159 p.) |
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Studies in American popular history and culture |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Emigration and immigration in literature |
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Immigrants' writings, American - History and criticism |
Difference (Psychology) in literature |
Passing (Identity) in literature |
Immigrants in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
White people in literature |
Race in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index. |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three ""Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?"" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four ""This Hideous Little Pickaninny"" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia; |
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Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
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