{"product_id":"siren-songs-representations-of-gender-and-sexuality-in-opera-paperback","title":"Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Ann Smart\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has long been argued that opera is all about sex. \u003ci\u003eSiren Songs\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection opens with Mary Ann Smart's introduction, which provides an engaging reflection on the state of gender topics in operatic criticism and musicology. It then moves on to a foundational essay on the complex relationships between opera and history by the renowned philosopher and novelist Catherine Clément, a pioneer of feminist opera criticism. Other articles examine the evolution of the \"trouser role\" as it evolved in the lesbian subculture of \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Paris, the phenomenon of \u003ci\u003eopera seria's\u003c\/i\u003e \"absent mother\" as a manifestation of attitudes to the family under absolutism, the invention of a \"hystericized voice\" in Verdi's \u003ci\u003eDon Carlos, \u003c\/i\u003e and a collaborative discussion of the staging problems posed by the gender politics of Mozart's operas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributors are Wye Jamison Allanboork, Joseph Auner, Katherine Bergeron, Philip Brett, Peter Brooks, Catherine Clement, Martha Feldman, Heather Hadlock, Mary Hunter, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D., Lawrence Kramer, Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart, and Gretchen Wheelock.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection will join a select and widely read group of books from the past decade dealing with classical music--and opera in particular--from the perspective of feminist and gender studies, sexuality, subject formation, and related cultural theory. \u003ci\u003eSiren Songs\u003c\/i\u003e will be a valuable book.\"\u003cb\u003e--Thomas S. Grey, Stanford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSiren Songs\u003c\/i\u003e is provocative and engaging. As a whole, the collection should become required reading among musicologists, and many of the individual contributions will interest scholars in other fields, as well as the opera-going public.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ruth Solie, Smith College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ann Smart\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of the critical edition of Donizetti's \u003ci\u003eDom Sébastien\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Roger Parker, of \u003ci\u003eReading Critics Reading: Criticism of French Opera from the Revolution to 1848.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Grove Dictionary of Music\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Companion to Grand Opera.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.23 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53275771175219,"sku":"9780691058139","price":87.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/uJ6vu1EQab9780691058139.webp?v=1776901187","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/siren-songs-representations-of-gender-and-sexuality-in-opera-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}