{"product_id":"siren-songs-9780691058139","title":"Siren Songs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has long been argued that opera is all about sex. \u003ci\u003eSiren Songs\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome''s striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The collection opens with Mary Ann Sma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clearly part of the next generation of gender studies in opera, this book will be of interest to scholars and informed amateurs alike.\"--Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowlegments vii  Introduction by Mary Ann Swart 3  Through Voices, History by Catht~riuc Clement 17  The Absent Mother in Oprah Seria by Martha Feldman 29  Staging Mozart's Women by Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. Wheelock 47  The Career of Cherubino, Or the Trouser Role Grows Up by Heather Hadlock 67  Elisabeth's Last Act by Roger Parker 93  Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera by Peter Brooks 118  Ulterior Motives: Verdi's Recurring Themes Revisited by Mary Ann Smart 135  Melisande's Hair, or the Trouble in Allemonde: A Postmodern Allegory at the Opera-Comique by Katherine Bergeron 160  Opera: Two or Three Things I Know about Her by Lawrence Kramer 186  Staging the Female Body: Richard Strauss's Salome by Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D. 204  \"Soulless Machines\" and Steppenwolves: Renegotiating Masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spiel auf~ by Joseph HHenry Auner 222  \"Grimes Ia at His Exercise\": Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes by Phillip Brett 237  Notes 251  Indexs 295\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403705000279,"sku":"9780691058139","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691058139.jpg?v=1730484299","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/siren-songs-9780691058139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}