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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465829103321

Autore

Scott Derek B

Titolo

From the erotic to the demonic [[electronic resource] ] : on critical musicology / / Derek B. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

9786610532438

0-19-534377-8

1-280-53243-2

1-4337-0009-3

1-4237-6306-8

0-19-515196-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.) : ill

Disciplina

780

Soggetti

Music - Social aspects

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Style, Musical

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND MUSICAL STYLE -- 1 Erotic Representation from Monteverdi to Mae West -- 2 The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics -- PART TWO: IDEOLOGY AND THE POPULAR -- 3 The Native American in Popular Music -- 4 Incongruity and Predictability in British Dance Band Music of the 1920s and 1930s -- PART THREE: THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE -- 5 Lux in Tenebris: Bruckner and the Dialectic of Darkness and Light -- 6 Diabolus in Musica: Liszt and the Demonic -- PART FOUR: IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL OTHERNESS -- 7 Orientalism and Musical Style -- 8 The Impact of African-American Music Making on the European Classical Tradition in the 1920s -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This text should prove useful as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. It demonstrates how



different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity.