Susan McClary
Auteur de Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
A propos de l'auteur
Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Œuvres de Susan McClary
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception (1987) — Directeur de publication — 37 exemplaires
Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series) (2013) 5 exemplaires
Rap, minimalism, and structures of time in late twentieth-century culture (The Geske lectures) (1998) 1 exemplaire
Carmen de Georges Bizet 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1946-10-02
- Sexe
- female
- Relations
- Walser, Robert (husband)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 290
- Popularité
- #80,656
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
Essentially, what she is arguing is that quite apart from the obvious institutional sexism in Western art music, which kept all but the most determined women out of formal training and major creative and interpretative roles for centuries, there is also an element of inherent sexism in the aesthetic content of music, the supposedly "pure", non-representative formal structures that shape musical works. And this applies as much to works like Tchaikovsky's Fourth and Beethoven's Ninth as it does to Carmen and Duke Bluebeard's Castle. The struggle between the tonic and the dominant and its resolution are quite simply (well not quite as simply as all that...) metaphors for sexual pleasure delayed and consumated. McClary looks at some major pieces from the established, male-dominated repertoire, but also brings in contrasting analyses of works by female creators - not just mainstream art composers but also people of the time like Laurie Anderson and Madonna.
More readable and thought-provoking than this short caricature probably suggests, but probably mostly of historical interest by now.… (plus d'informations)