Middlebrow Modernism Britten's Operas and the Great Divide

• 第一著者: Chowrimootoo, Christopher (auth)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Oakland University of California Press 2018
• 主題: Music; middlebrow; modernism; mass culture; Benjamin Britten; aesthetics; historiography; criticism; opera; ambivalence; duplicity
• オンライン･アクセス: 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...