Chopin at the Boundaries

Sex, History, and Musical Genre

AvJeffrey Kallberg

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Del 18 i serien Convergences: Inventories of the Present

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Beskrivning

The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, Chopin at the Boundaries is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity and to explore how this should figure in our understanding of his compositional methods. Through this novel approach, Kallberg reveals a new Chopin, one situated precisely where questions of gender open up into the very important question of genre.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-01-21
Mått:156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Convergences: Inventories of the Present
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674127913

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Mer om författaren

Jeffrey Kallberg is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Chopin at the Boundaries aim[s] 'to expose and partially recover aspects of Chopin's style perceived in his day to be marginal or foreign, but which today's listeners have transformed or repressed.' In this respect and in others, [it] succeed[s] brilliantly; Kallberg's scholarship is consistently of the highest caliber, his research meticulous and exhaustive, his arguments engaging.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface I. Ideology, Sex, and the Piano Miniature The Rhetoric of Genre: Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor The Harmony of the Tea Table: Gender and Ideology in the Piano Nocturne Small Fairy Voices: Sex, History, and Meaning in Chopin II. Social Constructions and the Compositional Process Chopin's Last Style Small "Forms": In Defense of the Prelude III. The Musical Work as Social Process Chopin in the Marketplace The Chopin "Problem": Simultaneous Variants and Alternate Versions Notes Credits Index