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Yayoi Uno Everett - Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun - 9780253017994 - V9780253017994
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Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun

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Description for Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun Hardback. Series: Musical Meaning & Interpretation. Num Pages: 21 b&w illus., 52 music exx., 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 536.

Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the mechanics of stagecraft, and their interaction with music and sung texts contribute significantly to the semiotics of operatic storytelling. Everett's study draws on Northrop Frye's theories of myth, Lacanian psychoanalysis via Slavoj Žižek, Linda and Michael Hutcheon's notion of production, and musical semiotics found in Robert Hatten's concept of troping in order to provide original interpretive ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Musical Meaning & Interpretation
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253017994
SKU
V9780253017994
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Yayoi Uno Everett
Yayoi Uno Everett is Professor of Music at University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Music of Louis Andriessen.

Reviews for Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun
In the last 20 years, scholarly research on opera has encompassed cultural, media, gender, psychoanalytic, and literary theories. With this book, Everett makes an important, impressive contribution to that scholarship. . . . Highly recommended.
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[O]ne of the most satisfying aspects of Reconfiguring Myth is Everett's sensitive attention to the way different productions articulate an opera as historical ... Read more

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