Middlebrow Modernism Britten's Operas and the Great Divide

• मुख्य लेखक: Chowrimootoo, Christopher (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Oakland University of California Press 2018
• विषय: Music; middlebrow; modernism; mass culture; Benjamin Britten; aesthetics; historiography; criticism; opera; ambivalence; duplicity
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...