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03259aam a2200445 i 4500 001 988C2B3E462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180504t20182018cauag b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018021983 020 $a 0520298659 020 $a 9780520298651 035 $a (OCoLC)1038025607 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ML410.B853 $b C47 2018 082 00 $a 782.1092 $2 23 100 1 $a Chowrimootoo, Christopher, $d 1985- $e author. 245 10 $a Middlebrow modernism : $b Britten's operas and the great divide / $c Christopher Chowrimootoo. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 229 pages : $b illustrations, music ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a California studies in 20th-century music ; $v 24 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation. 520 $a "At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This provocative study is situated at the intersection of the history, historiography, and aesthetics of twentieth-century music. It uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving midcentury discussions of the 'middlebrow, ' Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it too: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on key moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of gray in the previously black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music"--Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Britten, Benjamin, $d 1913-1976. $t Operas. 630 07 $a Operas (Britten, Benjamin) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356091 650 0 $a Opera $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Modernism (Music) $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Music $y 20th century $x Philosophy and aesthetics. 650 7 $a Modernism (Music) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01736351 650 7 $a Opera. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01046145 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985- $t Middlebrow modernism. $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] $z 9780520970700 $w (DLC) 2018025344 830 0 $a California studies in 20th-century music ; $v 24. 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20200421011100.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213020147.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=988C2B3E462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search