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Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / / Christopher Chowrimootoo



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Autore: Chowrimootoo Christopher <1985-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / / Christopher Chowrimootoo Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2019]
©[2019]
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)
Disciplina: 782.1092
Soggetto topico: Music - 20th century - Philosophy and esthetics
Modernism (Music) - History - 20th century
Opera - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century music
aesthetic oppositions
aesthetics
audiences
benjamin britten
composers
consonance
critics
cultural hierarchies
great divide
historiography
lyricism
mass culture
mid century discussions
modernism
music history and criticism
music history
music
opera music
opera
prestige
shades of grey
theatrical spectacle
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Middlebrow 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Middlebrow Modernism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-29865-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910293134103321
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Serie: California studies in 20th-century music ; ; 24.