Chowrimootoo, Christopher
Middlebrow Modernism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780520298651
- author:
- Chowrimootoo, Christopher
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of California Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 252
- Dimensions:
- 152mm X 229mm
- Genre:
- 22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 centimetres, Music, History & Criticism, Music,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Britten's Operas and the Great Divide: A Study of Modernism and Mass Culture. This book explores the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics through Benjamin Britten's operas. Christopher Chowrimootoo examines how composers, critics, and audiences navigated the divide between modernist art and mass culture in mid-century Britain. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions threatened to collapse, this study offers a nuanced model for recovering shades of grey in traditional historiographies of twentieth-century music.
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