Masculinity and Western Musical Practice

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music
Cover of the book Masculinity and Western Musical Practice by Kirsten Gibson, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kirsten Gibson ISBN: 9781351559027
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: July 5, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Kirsten Gibson
ISBN: 9781351559027
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: July 5, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection of essays addresses these questions by examining some of the ways in which men, music and masculinity have been implicated with each other since the Middle Ages. Feminist musicologies have already dealt extensively with music and gender, from the 'phallocentric' tendencies of the Western tradition, to the explicit marginalization of women from that tradition. This book builds on that work by turning feminist critical approaches towards the production, rhetorical engagement and subversion of masculinities in twelve different musical case studies. In other disciplines within the arts and humanities, 'men's studies' is a well-established field. Musicology has only recently begun to address critically music's engagement with masculinity and as a result has sometimes thereby failed to recognize its own discursive misogyny. This book does not seek to cover the field comprehensively but, rather, to explore in detail some of the ways in which musical practices do the cultural work of masculinity. The book is structured into three thematic sections: effeminate and virile musics and masculinities; national masculinities, national musics; and identities, voices, discourses. Within these themes, the book ranges across a number of specific topics: late medieval masculinities; early modern discourses of music, masculinity and medicine; Renaissance Italian masculinities; eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of creativity, gender and canonicity; masculinity, imperialist and nationalist ideologies in the nineteenth century, and constructions of the masculine voice in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera and song. While the case studies are methodologically disparate and located in different historical and geographical locations, they all share a common conc

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection of essays addresses these questions by examining some of the ways in which men, music and masculinity have been implicated with each other since the Middle Ages. Feminist musicologies have already dealt extensively with music and gender, from the 'phallocentric' tendencies of the Western tradition, to the explicit marginalization of women from that tradition. This book builds on that work by turning feminist critical approaches towards the production, rhetorical engagement and subversion of masculinities in twelve different musical case studies. In other disciplines within the arts and humanities, 'men's studies' is a well-established field. Musicology has only recently begun to address critically music's engagement with masculinity and as a result has sometimes thereby failed to recognize its own discursive misogyny. This book does not seek to cover the field comprehensively but, rather, to explore in detail some of the ways in which musical practices do the cultural work of masculinity. The book is structured into three thematic sections: effeminate and virile musics and masculinities; national masculinities, national musics; and identities, voices, discourses. Within these themes, the book ranges across a number of specific topics: late medieval masculinities; early modern discourses of music, masculinity and medicine; Renaissance Italian masculinities; eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of creativity, gender and canonicity; masculinity, imperialist and nationalist ideologies in the nineteenth century, and constructions of the masculine voice in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera and song. While the case studies are methodologically disparate and located in different historical and geographical locations, they all share a common conc

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Gay Widowers by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Structural Models and African Poetics by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Midwives of the Revolution by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book The Design of Frontier Spaces by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Islam and the Baha'i Faith by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Personhood and Social Robotics by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book The One and the Many by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Beyond Bauman by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Television Program Making by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Disclosure in Health and Illness by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Targeting Social Benefits by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Political Economy and Industrialism by Kirsten Gibson
Cover of the book Brain, Attachment, Personality by Kirsten Gibson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy