New PDF release: The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Essays (Ashgate

By Annegret Fauser

ISBN-10: 1472425782

ISBN-13: 9781472425782

This quantity explores the best way composers, performers, and critics formed person and collective identities in tune from Europe and the U.S. from the 1860s to the Fifties. chosen essays and articles have interaction with works and their reception via Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet (in an American incarnation), Lili and Nadia Boulanger, William provide nonetheless, and Aaron Copland, and with performers equivalent to Wanda Landowska or even Marilyn Monroe. Ranging in context from the opera condominium throughout the live performance corridor to the salon, and from institution cultures to counter-cultural items, the focus is how track allows new methods of contemplating problems with nationality, classification, race, and gender. those essays - 3 awarded for the 1st time in English translation - mirror the paintings in either musical and cultural stories of a amazing student whose foreign profession spans the Atlantic and beyond.

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