Middlebrow Modernism Britten's Operas and the Great Divide

• Hoofdauteur: Chowrimootoo, Christopher (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Oakland University of California Press 2018
• Onderwerpen: Music; middlebrow; modernism; mass culture; Benjamin Britten; aesthetics; historiography; criticism; opera; ambivalence; duplicity
• Online toegang: 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...