{"product_id":"siren-songs-representations-of-gender-and-sexuality-in-opera-9780691058139","title":"Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has long been argued that opera is all about sex. \u003ci\u003eSiren Songs\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The collection opens with Mary Ann Smart's introduction, which provides an engaging reflection on the state of gender topics in operatic criticism and musicology. It then moves on to a foundational essay on the complex relationships between opera and history by the renowned philosopher and novelist Catherine Clément, a pioneer of feminist opera criticism. Other articles examine the evolution of the trouser role as it evolved in the lesbian subculture of \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Paris, the phenomenon of \u003ci\u003eopera seria's\u003c\/i\u003e absent mother as a manifestation of attitudes to the family under absolutism, the invention of a hystericized voice in Verdi's \u003ci\u003eDon Carlos, \u003c\/i\u003e and a collaborative discussion of the staging problems posed by the gender politics of Mozart's operas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contributors are Wye Jamison Allanboork, Joseph Auner, Katherine Bergeron, Philip Brett, Peter Brooks, Catherine Clement, Martha Feldman, Heather Hadlock, Mary Hunter, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D., Lawrence Kramer, Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart, and Gretchen Wheelock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Ann Smart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.11w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691058139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2000 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ann Smart\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of the critical edition of Donizetti's \u003ci\u003eDom Sébastien\u003c\/i\u003e (to appear in \u003ci\u003eL'edizione critica delle opere di Gaetano Donizetti\u003c\/i\u003e) and, with Roger Parker, of \u003ci\u003eReading Critics Reading: Criticism of French Opera from the Revolution to 1848.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Grove Dictionary of Music\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Companion to Grand Opera\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40214527311987,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0d383d03-87d0-4576-8908-f0e283ddf92a.jpg?v=1656509233","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/siren-songs-representations-of-gender-and-sexuality-in-opera-9780691058139","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}