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Beethoven's Kiss - Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire (Paperback, Jove Mass-Marke)
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Beethoven's Kiss - Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire (Paperback, Jove Mass-Marke)
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A vivid (and startling) example of the "new musicology",
Beethoven's Kiss is an interdisciplinary study of romantic pianism
in relation to gender and sexuality, ultimately underscoring the
extent to which the piano resonates with intimations of both
homosexuality and mortality. The first chapter, on the amateur
pianist, scrutinizes the way Andre Gide and Roland Barthes discuss
piano playing, their favorite composers - and their homosexuality.
Situating these discussions within the histories of sexuality and
amateur pianism, the author argues that connections between musical
and sexual mastery are shaped by the "performance" of class and
gender. The second chapter examines the homoerotic basis of the
creation of nineteenth-century piano music and the equally
homoerotic basis of the twentieth-century recreation of this music.
The title of the third chapter, "Beethoven's Kiss", refers to the
apocryphal story that Beethoven kissed Liszt, then eleven, in
public. The author recounts other quasi-sexual myths about
nineteenth-century child prodigies, examining how and why these
stories used to circulate and why they no longer do so. The next
chapter examines the different ways nineteenth- and
twentieth-century audiences sexualize famous pianists and polarize
them along gender and sexual lines. The fifth chapter describes the
gender, sexual, and class positioning of the "maiden" piano teacher
in a variety of texts - interviews, memoirs, short stories, novels,
and films. The book concludes with a far-ranging analysis of
Liberace, who (with his silver candelabra) tried to perform
upper-class status, who (with his devotion to Chopin) tried to
perform highbrow taste, and who (with his closetedlifestyle) tried
to perform heterosexuality.
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