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Ideology in Britten's Operas (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,244
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Ideology in Britten's Operas (Hardcover): J.P.E. Harper-Scott

Ideology in Britten's Operas (Hardcover)

J.P.E. Harper-Scott

Series: Music since 1900

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This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Music since 1900
Release date: September 2018
Authors: J.P.E. Harper-Scott
Dimensions: 253 x 180 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-41636-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
LSN: 1-108-41636-5
Barcode: 9781108416368

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