Deviant Opera

Author : Axel Englund
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520974708

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Deviant Opera by Axel Englund Pdf

The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart’s peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner’s wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas—from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyond—in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.

Author : Margaret Cormier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472903634

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Rape at the Opera by Margaret Cormier Pdf

The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera, Margaret Cormier argues that production and performance are vital elements of opera, and that contemporary opera practitioners not only interpret but create operatic works when they put them onstage. Where some directors explicitly respond to contemporary dialogues about sexual violence, others utilize sexual violence as a surefire way to titillate, to shock, and to generate press for a new production. Drawing on archival footage as well as attendance at live events, Cormier analyzes productions of canonic operas from German, Italian, and French traditions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, including Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, La forza del destino, Un ballo in maschera, Salome, and Turandot. In doing so, Cormier highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes methods to evaluate representations of sexual violence on the opera stage, and reframes the primary responsibility of opera critics and creators as being not to opera composers and librettists but to the public.

Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197651360

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A Poetics of Handel's Operas by Nathan Link Pdf

What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognize that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue. Link proposes that when engaging with opera, distinguishing between the performance we see and hear on the stage and the story represented offers a meaningful approach to engaging with and interpreting the work. Handel's operas are today the most-performed works in the Baroque opera seria tradition. This genre, with its intricate dramaturgy and esoteric conventions, stands to gain much from an investigation into the relationships between the onstage performance and the story to which that performance directs us. In his analysis, Link offers theoretical studies on opera and narratological theories of literature, drama, and film, providing rich engagement with Handel's work and what it conveys about the relationship between text, story, and performance.

Author : Bootheina Majoul,Guiyun Guan,Nick Groom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9782384760947

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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2023) by Bootheina Majoul,Guiyun Guan,Nick Groom Pdf

This is an open access book. The 4th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2023) will be held on May 19–21, 2023 in Hangzhou, China. Culture includes language, which is a special cultural phenomenon. For culture, most scholars agree that it mainly includes two aspects: material culture and spiritual culture. Specific examples to show cultural phenomena will be of great benefit to our understanding. Some examples of material culture are listed here: Indian women wear saris, Japanese like to eat sashimi, and Chinese like to shake hands when meeting each other. These are various manifestations of material culture in different nations. Language is the mode of transmission of culture. Language is one of the most important ways of thinking and cultural exchange of human beings, which is actually the manifestation of the formation and transmission of culture. Because of thinking, human beings gradually create culture in the continuous social practice, and then spread their national culture to each other in the continuous language exchange. Since ancient times, art and culture have been going hand in hand and complementing each other. On the one hand, art is an important connotation and component of culture, and the progress of art is the driving force of cultural development. On the other hand, culture is the source and content of art, and the prosperity of culture is the key to improve the level of art. On the other hand, culture is the source and content of art, and the prosperity of culture is the key to improving the level of art. Therefore, whether it is culture or art, it is not only a symbol of an era, a representation of people’s life style, but also a guide to the direction of social development. The relationship between language, art and cultural communication is a hot topic for many scholars to study at present. Therefore, an academic conference is set up for authors to discuss related research issues and exchange new ideas, hoping that scholars can burst out more excellent and valuable ideas in this conference. ICLACE 2023 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Literature, Art and Cultural Exchange research to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to provide a platform for scientists, scholars, and engineers from all over the world to present ongoing research activities, fostering the research and business relations and promoting scientific information interchange and cooperation between all the participants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004467125

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Arts of Incompletion by Anonim Pdf

Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art which continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics.

Author : J. William Spencer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199973576

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Contexts of Deviance by J. William Spencer Pdf

While most readers focus more on deviance than sociology, Contexts of Deviance: Statuses, Institutions, and Interactions brings sociology front and center by examining deviance and social control in their social contexts. This fresh and innovative anthology shows students how deviance and control can be studied at different levels of analysis and from a range of theoretical approaches using different methodologies. The collection is divided into six parts: theory, social control, statuses and identities, institutions, subcultures, and social movements. The readings range from classic to contemporary pieces, from macro-level studies to studies of face-to-face encounters. Contexts of Deviance also represents a wide range of theoretical traditions--from functionalist and critical to post-modern and interactionist. Introductions in each section help students to understand what it means to study deviance and control in a social context, to appreciate research questions at different levels of analysis, and to recognize how a positivist orientation is different from a subjectivist orientation. An instructor's manual and test bank prepared by Thomas N. Ratliff (Arkansas State University), Jessica Middleton (University of California at Irvine), and Ashley Swan (Arkansas State University) are available for qualified instructors.

Author : Philip Purvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136182150

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Masculinity in Opera by Philip Purvis Pdf

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has been the focus of recent if sporadic musicological discussion, the relationship between masculinity and opera has so far escaped detailed critical scrutiny. Operating from a position of sympathy with feminist and queer approaches and the phallocentric tendencies they identify, this study offers a unique perspective on the cultural relativism of opera by focusing on the male operatic subject. Anchored by musical analysis or close readings of musical discourse, the contributions take an interdisciplinary approach by also engaging with theatre, popular music, and cultural musicology scholarship. The various musical, theoretical, and socio-political trajectories of the essays are historically dispersed from seventeenth to twentieth- first-century operatic works and practices, visiting masculinity and the operatic voice, the complication or refusal of essentialist notions of masculinity, and the operatic representation of the ‘crisis’ of masculinity. This volume will not only enliven the study of masculinity in opera, but be an appealing contribution to music scholars interested in gender, history, and new musicology.

Author : ASTM Committee D-2 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Lubricating oils
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Multicylinder Test Sequences for Evaluating Automotive Engine Oils by ASTM Committee D-2 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social problems
ISBN : UCAL:B3898746

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Social Problems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marián Gálik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : UOM:39015060552901

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Fin de Siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation by Marián Gálik Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020632357

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California Lingwistik Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B4331733

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MLN. by Anonim Pdf

MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Critical studies in the modern languages--Italian, Hispanic, German, French--and recent work in comparative literature are the basis for articles and notes in MLN. Four single-language issues and one comparative literature issue are published each year.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural machinery
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089491116

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Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Currency question
ISBN : NWU:35556037942158

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International Currency Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015064203345

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A History of Western Musical Aesthetics by Edward A. Lippman Pdf

Among the fine arts music has always held a paramount position. "Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul", wrote Plato. From the "music of the spheres" of Pythagoras to the "Future Music" of Wagner, from churches, courts, cathedrals, and concert halls to amateur recitals, military marches, and electronic records, music has commanded the perpetual attention of every civilization in history. This book follows through the centuries the debates about the place and function of music, the perceived role of music as a good or bad influence on the development of character, as a magical art or a domestic entertainment, and as a gateway to transcendental truths. Edward Lippman describes the beginnings of musical tradition in the myths and philosophies of antiquity. He shows how music theory began to take on new dimensions and intensity in the seventeenth century, how musical aesthetics was specifically defined and elaborated in the eighteenth century, and how, by the nineteenth century, music became the standard by which other arts were judged. The twentieth century added problems, pressure, and theories as music continued to diversify and as cultures viewed each other with more respect.