Masculinity In Opera

Author : Philip Purvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136182150

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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 : Naomi Andre,Karen M. Bryan,Eric Saylor
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252093890

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Blackness in Opera by Naomi Andre,Karen M. Bryan,Eric Saylor Pdf

Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera. The volume brings a wide-ranging, theoretically informed, interdisciplinary approach to questions about how blackness has been represented in these operas, issues surrounding characterization of blacks, interpretation of racialized roles by blacks and whites, controversies over race in the theatre and the use of blackface, and extensions of blackness along the spectrum from grand opera to musical theatre and film. In addition to essays by scholars, the book also features reflections by renowned American tenor George Shirley. Contributors are Naomi André, Melinda Boyd, Gwynne Kuhner Brown, Karen M. Bryan, Melissa J. de Graaf, Christopher R. Gauthier, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Gayle Murchison, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Eric Saylor, Sarah Schmalenberger, Ann Sears, George Shirley, and Jonathan O. Wipplinger.

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : University of Jyvaskyla
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Masculinity
ISBN : 9513405400

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Refractions of Masculinity by John Richardson Pdf

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Author : John Champagne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137470041

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Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama by John Champagne Pdf

Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this much-needed study shows the vital role of affect for both Italian history and masculinity studies.

Author : Zhuying Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000220896

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Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Zhuying Li Pdf

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made. Using feminist methodology and epistemology to locate women’s social identity, this book explores the sociological connections between the masculinisation of women and masculinist domination in the context of the Cultural Revolution. Through film analysis, the author examines whether women, rather than 'liberated', were in fact re-gendered and oppressed by masculinist power. By critically evaluating gender hierarchy during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the book provides hitherto neglected insights into gender within its social and cultural context. This an interdisciplinary book which should appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, Asian studies, China studies, cultural studies and film studies.

Author : Kirsten Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351559034

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Masculinity and Western Musical Practice by Kirsten Gibson Pdf

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection of essays addresses these questions by examining some of the ways in which men, music and masculinity have been implicated with each other since the Middle Ages. Feminist musicologies have already dealt extensively with music and gender, from the 'phallocentric' tendencies of the Western tradition, to the explicit marginalization of women from that tradition. This book builds on that work by turning feminist critical approaches towards the production, rhetorical engagement and subversion of masculinities in twelve different musical case studies. In other disciplines within the arts and humanities, 'men's studies' is a well-established field. Musicology has only recently begun to address critically music's engagement with masculinity and as a result has sometimes thereby failed to recognize its own discursive misogyny. This book does not seek to cover the field comprehensively but, rather, to explore in detail some of the ways in which musical practices do the cultural work of masculinity. The book is structured into three thematic sections: effeminate and virile musics and masculinities; national masculinities, national musics; and identities, voices, discourses. Within these themes, the book ranges across a number of specific topics: late medieval masculinities; early modern discourses of music, masculinity and medicine; Renaissance Italian masculinities; eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of creativity, gender and canonicity; masculinity, imperialist and nationalist ideologies in the nineteenth century, and constructions of the masculine voice in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera and song. While the case studies are methodologically disparate and located in different historical and geographical locations, they all share a common conc

Author : Rebecca Feasey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748631797

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Masculinity and Popular Television by Rebecca Feasey Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the reality game show, and domesticity in lifestyle television. Masculinity and Popular Television examines the ways in which masculinities are being constructed, circulated and interrogated in contemporary British and American programming, and considers the ways in which such images can be understood in relation to the 'common sense' model of the hegemonic male that is said to dominate the cultural landscape.

Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107067769

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The Rival Sirens by Suzanne Aspden Pdf

The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.

Author : R. Horrocks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230372801

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Masculinity in Crisis by R. Horrocks Pdf

This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.

Author : Jennifer Lorena Ortega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gender identity in music
ISBN : UCR:31210015199100

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Voicing Masculinity/femininity by Jennifer Lorena Ortega Pdf

Author : Zhuying Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000220957

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Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Zhuying Li Pdf

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made. Using feminist methodology and epistemology to locate women’s social identity, this book explores the sociological connections between the masculinisation of women and masculinist domination in the context of the Cultural Revolution. Through film analysis, the author examines whether women, rather than 'liberated', were in fact re-gendered and oppressed by masculinist power. By critically evaluating gender hierarchy during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the book provides hitherto neglected insights into gender within its social and cultural context. This an interdisciplinary book which should appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, Asian studies, China studies, cultural studies and film studies.

Author : Richard Dellamora,Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0231109458

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The Work of Opera by Richard Dellamora,Daniel Fischlin Pdf

In this significant collection of original essays, preeminent literary and cultural critics, musicologists, and queer theorists delve into the way opera shapes national character through its representations of gender, sexuality, and class. The book includes essays on the works of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and others and examines the impact of such modern phenomena as AIDS. 10 photos. 15 music examples.

Author : Olivia Bloechl,Melanie Lowe,Jeffrey Kallberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107026674

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Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship by Olivia Bloechl,Melanie Lowe,Jeffrey Kallberg Pdf

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

Author : Naomi André
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253217899

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Voicing Gender by Naomi André Pdf

Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.

Author : Kirsten Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351559027

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Masculinity and Western Musical Practice by Kirsten Gibson Pdf

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection of essays addresses these questions by examining some of the ways in which men, music and masculinity have been implicated with each other since the Middle Ages. Feminist musicologies have already dealt extensively with music and gender, from the 'phallocentric' tendencies of the Western tradition, to the explicit marginalization of women from that tradition. This book builds on that work by turning feminist critical approaches towards the production, rhetorical engagement and subversion of masculinities in twelve different musical case studies. In other disciplines within the arts and humanities, 'men's studies' is a well-established field. Musicology has only recently begun to address critically music's engagement with masculinity and as a result has sometimes thereby failed to recognize its own discursive misogyny. This book does not seek to cover the field comprehensively but, rather, to explore in detail some of the ways in which musical practices do the cultural work of masculinity. The book is structured into three thematic sections: effeminate and virile musics and masculinities; national masculinities, national musics; and identities, voices, discourses. Within these themes, the book ranges across a number of specific topics: late medieval masculinities; early modern discourses of music, masculinity and medicine; Renaissance Italian masculinities; eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of creativity, gender and canonicity; masculinity, imperialist and nationalist ideologies in the nineteenth century, and constructions of the masculine voice in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera and song. While the case studies are methodologically disparate and located in different historical and geographical locations, they all share a common conc