Book Details
Chopin at the Boundaries : Sex, History, and Musical Genre
Description
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.
About Author(s)
Jeffrey Kallberg is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
Content
Preface
Part I Ideology, Sex, and the Piano Miniature
1 The Rhetoric of Genre: Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor
2 The Harmony of the Tea Table: Gender and Ideology in the Piano Nocturne
3 Small Fairy Voices: Sex, History, and Meaning in Chopin
Part II Social Constructions and the Compositional Process
4 Chopin's Last Style
5 Small"forms": In Defense of the Prelude
PART III The Musical Work as Social Process'
6 Chopin in the Marketplace
7 The Chopin "Problem": Simultaneous Variants and Alternate Versions
Notes
Credits
Index
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