LEADER 03923oam 22008414a 450 001 9910293134103321 005 20240418003546.0 010 $a0-520-29865-9 024 7 $a10.1525/luminos.57 035 $a(CKB)4100000007142884 035 $a(OAPEN)1002460 035 $a(DE-B1597)539705 035 $a(OCoLC)1038032572 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520970700 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72979 035 $a(ScCtBLL)0be1c6b5-54f8-4b24-b2ba-58ceffde19d3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31594318 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31594318 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007142884 100 $a20180504d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMiddlebrow Modernism$eBritten?s Operas and the Great Divide /$fChristopher Chowrimootoo 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ[2019] 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) $cPDF, digital file(s) 225 0 $aCalifornia Studies in 20th-Century Music ;$v24 311 08$aPrint version: 9780520298651 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMiddlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation. 330 $a"At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This provocative study is situated at the intersection of the history, historiography, and aesthetics of twentieth-century music. It uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving midcentury discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it too: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on key moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of gray in the previously black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aCalifornia studies in 20th-century music ;$v24. 606 $aMusic$y20th century$xPhilosophy and esthetics 606 $aModernism (Music)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aOpera$y20th century 610 $a20th century music. 610 $aaesthetic oppositions. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $aaudiences. 610 $abenjamin britten. 610 $acomposers. 610 $aconsonance. 610 $acritics. 610 $acultural hierarchies. 610 $agreat divide. 610 $ahistoriography. 610 $alyricism. 610 $amass culture. 610 $amid century discussions. 610 $amodernism. 610 $amusic history and criticism. 610 $amusic history. 610 $amusic. 610 $aopera music. 610 $aopera. 610 $aprestige. 610 $ashades of grey. 610 $atheatrical spectacle. 615 0$aMusic$xPhilosophy and esthetics. 615 0$aModernism (Music)$xHistory 615 0$aOpera 676 $a782.1092 700 $aChowrimootoo$b Christopher$f1985-$01023318 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910293134103321 996 $aMiddlebrow Modernism$92430974 997 $aUNINA