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Title:

Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera / edited by Mary Ann Smart.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

vi, 301 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women in opera--Congresses.
Sex in opera.--Congresses.
Feminism and music.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Smart, Mary Ann.
Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (1995 : Stony Brook, N.Y.)

Notes:

Selected papers from Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera, a conference held Sept. 1995 at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-294) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Mary Ann Smart -- Through voices, history / Catherine Clément -- The absent mother in opera seria / Martha Feldman -- Staging Mozart's women / Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. Wheelock -- The career of Cherubino, or the trouser role grows up / Heather Hadlock -- Elisabeth's last act / Roger Parker -- Body and voice in melodrama and opera / Peter Brooks -- Ulterior motives : Verdi's recurring themes revisited / Mary Ann Smart -- Mélisande's hair, or the trouble in Allemonde : a postmodern allegory at the Opéra-Comique / Katherine Bergeron -- Opera : two or three things I know about her / Lawrence Kramer -- Staging the female body : Richard Strauss's Salome / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D. -- "Soulless machines" and Steppenwolves : renegotiating masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Joseph Henry Auner -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes / Philip Brett.

Series:

Princeton studies in opera

ISBN:

9780691058139 (pbk. : alk. paper)
069105813X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691058146 (alk. paper)
0691058148 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43790232

LCCN:

00038500

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)