Chopin at the Boundaries : Sex, History, and Musical Genre Paperback / softback
by Jeffrey Kallberg
Part of the Convergences: Inventories of the Present series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 5 halftones, 30 musical examples, 4 diagrams
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:21/01/1998
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- ISBN:9780674127913
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 5 halftones, 30 musical examples, 4 diagrams
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:21/01/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674127913
