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Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre(Convergences: Inventories of the Present)


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The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, Chopin at the Boundaries is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity and to explore how this should figure in our understanding of his compositional methods. Through this novel approach, Kallberg reveals a new Chopin, one situated precisely where questions of gender open up into the very important question of genre.

Table of Contents:
Preface I. Ideology, Sex, and the Piano Miniature The Rhetoric of Genre: Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor The Harmony of the Tea Table: Gender and Ideology in the Piano Nocturne Small Fairy Voices: Sex, History, and Meaning in Chopin II. Social Constructions and the Compositional Process Chopin's Last Style Small "Forms": In Defense of the Prelude III. The Musical Work as Social Process Chopin in the Marketplace The Chopin "Problem": Simultaneous Variants and Alternate Versions Notes Credits Index

About the Author :
Jeffrey Kallberg is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

Review :
Chopin at the Boundaries aim[s] 'to expose and partially recover aspects of Chopin's style perceived in his day to be marginal or foreign, but which today's listeners have transformed or repressed.' In this respect and in others, [it] succeed[s] brilliantly; Kallberg's scholarship is consistently of the highest caliber, his research meticulous and exhaustive, his arguments engaging. Kallberg is internationally accepted as one of the most knowledgeable writers on Chopin today. This book shows that he is also the most original. It is an extremely successful attempt to open out the study of Chopin into both social criticism and the history of reception...It is certainly the most stimulating book of Chopin criticism I have ever read. Mr. Kallberg...[explores] connections between 'gender and genre' by way of showing Frederic Chopin's small forms and surface beauties congruent with 19th-century concepts of feminine expression. Most of the pages [of his book] are given over to fine analysis of Chopin's work. There is in particular an excellent examination of that strange end piece to Chopin's career, the F-minor Mazurka. [Kallberg's] meticulous scholarship is presented lucidly, and his acquaintance with pertinent literature of the past century and a half is impressive.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674127913
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
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  • Sub Title: Sex, History, and Musical Genre
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0674127919
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jan 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Series Title: Convergences: Inventories of the Present
  • Weight: 454 gr


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