Middlebrow Modernism Britten's Operas and the Great Divide

• Main Author: Chowrimootoo, Christopher (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland University of California Press 2018
• Subjects: Music; middlebrow; modernism; mass culture; Benjamin Britten; aesthetics; historiography; criticism; opera; ambivalence; duplicity
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture. Revivi...