Research Catalog

Title

Feminine endings : music, gender, and sexuality / Susan McClary.

Author

McClary, Susan.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.

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Details

Description

viii, 220 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.

Summary

"When it was originally published in 1991, Feminine Endings was immediately controversial for its unprecedented intermingling of cultural criticism and musical studies, an approach that came to be called the "new musicology." Through case studies of works ranging from the canonical - operas by Monteverdi and Bizet - to the contemporary - the performance art of Diamanda Galas and popular songs by Madonna - Susan McClary focuses on the ways music produces images of gender, desire, pleasure, and the body, and explores the gender-based metaphors that circulate in discourse about music. This classic work features a new introduction that discusses the critical reception the book received and the debates it has inspired."-- from book jacket.

Subjects

• Sex in music
• Feminism and music

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : a material girl in Bluebeard's castle -- 2. Constructions of gender in Monteverdi's dramatic music -- 3. Sexual politics in classical music -- 4. Excess and frame : the musical representation of madwomen -- 5. Getting down off the beanstalk : the presence of a woman's voice in Janika Vandervelde's Genesis II -- 6. This is not a story my people tell : musical time and space according to Laurie Anderson -- 7. Living to tell : Madonna's resurrection of the fleshly.

Call Number

JMD 91-248

ISBN

• 0816618984
• 0816618992 (pbk.)

LCCN

90011169

OCLC

• 21976199
• NYPG91-B34485

Author

McClary, Susan.

Title

Feminine endings : music, gender, and sexuality / Susan McClary.

Imprint

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JMD 91-248