From the erotic to the demonic:on critical musicology

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Scott Derek B
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford New York
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: 258 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 019515195X (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: J60
CLC: J60
Call Number: J60/S425
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sexuality, gender, and musical style. Erotic representation from Monteverdi to Mae West ; The sexual politics of Victorian musical aesthetics -- Ideology and the popular. The Native American in popular music ; Incongruity and predictability in British dance band music of the 1920s and 1930s -- The sacred and the profane. Lux in Tenebris : Bruckner and the dialectic of darkness and light ; Diabolus in musicus : Liszt and the demonic -- Ideology and cultural otherness. Orientalism and musical style ; The impact of African-American music making on the European classical tradition in the 1920s.