Middlebrow Modernism

Middlebrow Modernism
Author :
Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 244
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520298651
ISBN-13 : 0520298659
Rating : 4/5 (659 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Middlebrow Modernism by : Christopher Chowrimootoo

Download or read book Middlebrow Modernism written by Christopher Chowrimootoo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the “great divide” between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten’s works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.


Middlebrow Modernism Related Books

Middlebrow Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Christopher Chowrimootoo
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-06 - Publisher: University of California Press

GET EBOOK

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Vi
Middlebrow Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Melinda J. Cooper
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-01 - Publisher: Sydney University Press

GET EBOOK

Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia’s most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s t
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Lise Jaillant
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mi
Middlebrow Matters
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Diana Holmes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the t
At the Mercy of Their Clothes
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Celia Marshik
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-29 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

GET EBOOK

In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, a