Music and sexuality in Britten selecte d essays / [electronic resource] :
Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an int roduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- xiv, 280 p. ; 23 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, a nd violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in The turn of th e screw -- Britten's dream -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Pu rcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Operas.
Composers-- Great Britain-- Biography. Sex in music. Gender identity in music.