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This text should prove useful as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. It demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity.
Sexuality, gender, and musical style. Erotic representation from Monteverdi to Mae West ; The sexual politics of Victorian musical aesthetics -- Ideology and the popular. The Native American in popular music ; Incongruity and predictability in British dance band music of the 1920s and 1930s -- The sacred and the profane. Lux in Tenebris : Bruckner and the dialectic of darkness and light ; Diabolus in musicus : Liszt and the demonic -- Ideology and cultural otherness. Orientalism and musical style ; The impact of African-American music making on the European classical tradition in the 1920s.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003