Feminine Endings
Douban
Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Susan McClary
Sinossi
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Feminine Endings in Retrospect ix
1. Introduction: A Material Girl in Bluebeard's Castle 3
2. Constructions of Gender in Monteverdi's Dramatic Music 35
3. Sexual Politics in Classical Music 53
4. Excess and Frame: The Musical Representation of Madwomen 80
5. Getting Down Off the Beanstalk: The Presence of a Woman's Voice in
JanikaVandervelde's Genesis II 112
6. This Is Not a Story My People Tell: Musical Time and Space According
to Laurie Anderson 132
7. Living to Tell: Madonnas Resurrection of the Fleshly 148
Notes 169
Index 213
