Reviews for Music and sexuality in Britten

The average rating for Music and sexuality in Britten based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-15 00:00:00 Jon Long Brett's works on Sexuality in Britten were a watershed in two senses; not only was Brett one of the first academics to tackle Britten's works, he was also arguably the very first to bring analysis of sexuality - particularly homosexuality - to the music academic sphere. Within this book are a collection of writings, taken from a variety of sources - journals, edited books, papers and talks. The essays primarily focus on sexuality within Britten's Operas, but do occasionally stray to his other works. All of the essays are very well written, in a style which is academic and deep, but also easily fairly accessible, with Brett occasionally taking a very informal tone to get his point across. All of his thoughts and ideas are well thought out and explained, though occasionally I feel he fails to take the final, obvious step of logic to fully concrete his points. There is some overlap in the content of two of the selected essays, but as the notes state, the two essays make substantially different points, and their combined inclusion is justified.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-07 00:00:00 Demond Cameron cross-cultural analysis of women and their relationship to music. Good research book. Very academic and dry.