Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre

by Jeffrey Kallberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674127919
• ISBN13: 9780674127913
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"