Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera - Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun

Informationen zum Autor Yayoi Uno Everett is Professor of Music at University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Music of Louis Andriessen. Klappentext Yayoi Uno Everett is Professor of Music at University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Music of Louis Andriessen. Zusammenfassung Everett's study draws on Northrop Frye's theories of myth, Lacanian psychoanalysis via Slavoj Zizek, Linda and Michael Hutcheon's notion of production, and musical semiotics found in Robert Hatten's concept of troping in order to provide original interpretive models for conceptualizing new operatic narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Toward a Multimodal Discourse on Opera 2. Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar: A Myth of "Wounded" Freedom 3. Kaija Saariaho's Adriana Mater: A Narrative of Trauma and Ambivalence 4. John Adams' Doctor Atomic: A Faustian Parable for the Modern Age? 5. The Anti-hero in Tan Dun's The First Emperor Epilogue: Opera as Myth in the Global Age Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Yayoi Uno Everett, Yayoi Uno (Emory University Everett, Everett Yayoi Uno
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780253017994
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01799-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Musical Meaning and Interpreta; Musical Meaning and Interpretation; Musical Meaning and Interpreta; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history