Ideology in Britten's Operas
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 31353513
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108236386
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108416368
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first monograph to examine the relation between Benjamin Britten's operas and the ideology of the age in which they were written and have subsequently been received. It offers a complex and multi-layered analysis of the music in its technical details and shows how the music presents an aesthetic reflection of and engagement with Western culture, politics, and economics (Western ‘ideology’ in the Marxist sense). The book required extensive research using a wide range of sources in philosophy, sociology, music theory, and economic history, as well as twentieth-century Japanese aesthetics and theories of Noh theatre.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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