Middlebrow Modernism

by Christopher Chowrimootoo

Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the "middlebrow," Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013291778
• ISBN13: 9781013291777
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"