TY - BOOK ID - 134888009 TI - Music and Sexuality in Britten AU - Brett, Philip AU - Doctor, Jenny AU - Haggerty, George E AU - McClary, Susan PY - 2006 SN - 1282771981 9786612771989 0520939123 9780520939127 0520246098 0520246101 9780520246102 9780520246096 PB - CA University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Gender identity in music. KW - Sex in music. KW - Composers KW - Britten, Benjamin, KW - 20th century. KW - benjamin britten. KW - british composers. KW - british culture. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural identity. KW - essay collection. KW - europe. KW - famous composers. KW - gay studies. KW - gender studies. KW - lgbtq. KW - music and culture. KW - music historians. KW - music history. KW - music scholars. KW - music scholarship. KW - musical texts. KW - musicians. KW - musicology. KW - nonfiction essays. KW - nonfiction. KW - operas. KW - personal identity. KW - queer studies nonfiction. KW - queer studies. KW - sexual identity. KW - sexuality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134888009 AB - Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of Britten's work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, Brett examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. With some of the essays appearing here for the first time, this volume develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that Brett expanded the borders of his field. ER -