| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, music |
| Series |
AMS studies in music |
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AMS studies in music.
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| Contents |
Censorship, Berg's Lulu, and the opera's temporal setting -- "Burlesque tragedy" and "tristan rapture": fin-de-siècle decadence and the Lulu works of Wedekind and Berg -- Lulu and/or Geschwitz idealized, in the symphonic pieces from "Lulu" and elsewhere -- Berg's literal-mindedness and second order consequences of censoring Wedekind -- Act 1 of Berg's Lulu: tragic material reconceived as a comedy of manners -- Act 2: indirect and second order consequences of censorship on a large scale -- Husbands as customers and other problems in interpreting Act 3 of Berg's Lulu |
| Summary |
Through the telling of Alban Berg's Lulu, ""Taken by the Devil"" illuminates the forces of politically-driven censorship of theater, music, and the arts during the tumultuous early twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 13, 2020) |
| Subject |
Berg, Alban, 1885-1935. Lulu.
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Berg, Alban, 1885-1935 -- Censorship
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Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918. Büchse der Pandora.
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Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918 -- Censorship
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| SUBJECT |
Berg, Alban, 1885-1935 fast |
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Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918 fast |
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Büchse der Pandora (Wedekind, Frank) fast |
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Lulu (Berg, Alban) fast |
| Subject |
Censorship
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190069896 |
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0190069899 |
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9780190069872 |
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0190069872 |
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