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Annegret Fauser, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, is a cultural musicologist whose work emphasises how music intersects with its social, political, and artistic contexts.
This volume explores the way in which composers, performers, and critics shaped individual and collective identities in music from Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1950s.
Selected essays and articles engage with works and their reception by Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet (in an American incarnation), Lili and Nadia Boulanger, William Grant Still, and Aaron Copland, and with performers such as Wanda Landowska and even Marilyn Monroe. Ranging in context from the opera house through the concert hall to the salon, and from establishment cultures to counter-cultural products, the main focus is how music permits new ways of considering issues of nationality, class, race, and gender.
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