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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452744603321

Autore

McClary Susan

Titolo

Feminine endings [[electronic resource] ] : music, gender, and sexuality / / Susan McClary ; with a new introduction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2002

ISBN

0-8166-1898-4

0-8166-9505-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

780/.82

Soggetti

Feminism and music

Sex in music

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

VW; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

<![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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451109003321

Autore

Brown Linda Joyce <1967-, >

Titolo

The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era / / Linda Joyce Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93242-5

1-280-17845-0

0-203-32772-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Studies in American popular history and culture

Disciplina

810.9/3522/09041

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;



Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.