Reading music : selected essays /
McClary, Susan.
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes index.
Part 1 : interpretation and polemics -- Pitches, expression, ideology : an exercise in mediation (1983) -- The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach year (1987) -- Narrative agendas in 'absolute' music : identity and difference in Brahms's Third Symphony (1993) -- Terminal prestige : the case of avant-garde music composition (1989) -- Part 2 : gender and sexuality -- A material girl in Bluebeard's castle (1991) -- Structures of identity and difference in Bizet's Carmen (1997) -- Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert's music (1994) -- Part 3 : popular music -- 'Same as it ever was' : youth culture and music (1994) -- Living to tell : Madonna's resurrection of the fleshly (1990) -- Thinking blues (2000) -- Part 4 : early music -- The cultural work of the madrigal (2004) -- Cycles of repetition : chacona, ciaccona, chaconne, and the chaconne (2007).
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