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Tragic Manhood and Democracy - Verdi's Voice and the Powers of Musical Art (Paperback, New)
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Tragic Manhood and Democracy - Verdi's Voice and the Powers of Musical Art (Paperback, New)
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What is tragedy? This work argues that it is, at once, art and
science -- an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical
inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma
of manhood under democracy. drama in general and the operas of
Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of
tragedy to an understanding of personal and political psychology
through discussion of: the political theory of structural injustice
resting on the suppression of voice (underlying evils like racism,
sexism, and homophobia), a developmental psychology of gender
(drawing on the work of Carol Gilligan the Harvard Project on
Women's Psychology, Boy's Development and the Culture of Manhood]),
and an interpretation of tragic art (including the expressive role
of music in it). Exploration of the tragic impact of patriarchy on
democratic voice is at the heart of the power and appeal of Verdi's
innovations in musical voice. on personal and political
relationships (parents to children, siblings to one another, and
adult men and women). Such practices -- fundamental to the family,
politics, and religion -- enforce demands by forms of physical and
psychological violence directed by men and women at anyone who
deviates from its demands. Verdi's tragic musical drama speaks of
an emotional loss that literally cannot under patriarchy be spoken,
namely, what the author calls the tragedy of patriarchy -- a
divided psychology that lives in the tension between patriarchal
practices and democratic principles, and between the psychological
demands of patriarchy and democratic manhood. analytics of
traumatised voice under patriarchy; Tragic art: patriarchy in
ancient Athens and Verdi's Italy; Music as the memory of suppressed
voice in Verdi's mature operas; Verdi and Italian nationalism;
Parents and children; Siblings; Lovers; Tragedy as the dilemma of
democratic manhood; Between Patriarchal and Democratic Manhood.
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