The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367581817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 392 str.

Annegret Fauser

Opis

The essays selected for this volume - three of which are presented for the first time in English translation - reflect the work in both musical and cultural studies of a distinguished scholar whose international career spans the Atlantic and beyond. The articles explore how composers, performers and critics shaped individual and collective identiti

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction. Part I Music and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century France: ‘Cette musique sans tradition’: Wagner’s Tannhäuser and its French critics (2009); Visual pleasures - musical signs: dance at the Paris Opéra (2005); Oscarine and Réginette: a comic interlude in the French reception of Wagner (2007); Gendering the nations: the ideologies of French discourse on music (1870-1914) (2001); Disruptive histories: telling the story of modern music in France (2006). Part II Musical identities in the United States in the 1930s and ‘40s: Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, and the making of an ‘American’ composer (2006); ‘Presenting a great truth’: William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony (1930) (2011); ‘Dixie Carmen’: war, race, and identity in Oscar Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones (1943) (2010). Part III Gender Politics in Music: Rheinsirenen: Loreley and other Rhine maidens (2006); Creating Madame Landowska (2006); La Guerre en dentelles: women and the Prix de Rome in French cultural politics (1998); Composing as a Catholic: rereading Lili Boulanger’s vocal music (2006); Lili Boulanger’s La Princesse Maleine: a composer and her heroine as literary icons (1997). Index.

O autorze

The recipient of the 2011 Edward J. Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association, Annegret Fauser is a cultural musicologist whose research focuses on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particular that of France and America. She is the author of Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair (2005) and Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II (2013). Her book with Mark Everist, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris 1830-1914 (2009) was awarded the Ruth A. Solie Award of the American Musicological Society, and from 2011-2013 she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.