This is the first book to examine Schubert's songs as active
shaping forces in the culture of their era rather than as mere
reflections of it. Responding to rising new forms of social
organisation, Schubert discovered that songs could serve as a
medium for shuffling and reshuffling the basic building blocks of
identity and desire, especially sexual desire. His songs project a
kaleidoscopic array of unexpected human types, all of whom are
eligible for a sympathetic response, even the strangest and most
disconcerting. Schubert sought to validate these subjective types
without subordinating them to a central social or sexual norm. The
book describes and contextualises this process and tracks it
concretely in a wide variety of songs. Combining close attention to
both music and poetry, the book addresses both specialists and
non-specialists in a lively, accessible style unburdened by
excessive jargon.
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