Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674127913)

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.

Author: Jeffrey Kallberg
ISBN-10: 0674127919
ISBN-13: 9780674127913
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/1998
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.15w x 0.71d