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| Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality | 
| Author: Susan Mcclary
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 592947
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0816641897
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.82
EAN: 9780816641895
ASIN: 0816641897
Publication Date: August 2002
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When it was originally published in 1991, Feminine Endings was immediately controversial for its unprecedented intermingling of cultural criticism and musical studies, an approach that came to be called "the New Musicology." Through case studies of works ranging from the canonical-operas by Monteverdi and Bizet-to the contemporary-the performance art of Diamanda Galas and popular songs by Madonna-Susan McClary focuses on the ways music produces images of gender, desire, pleasure, and the body, and explores the gender-based metaphors that circulate in discourse about music. The now classic work features a new introduction that discusses the critical reception it received and the debates it has inspired. "A major book . . . [McClary's] achievement borders on the miraculous." Village Voice "McClary writes with a racy, vigorous, and consistently entertaining style. . . . What she has to say specifically about the music and the text is sharp, accurate, and telling; she hears what takes place musically with unusual sensitivity." New York Review of Books Susan McClary, professor of musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in the cultural criticism of music, both the European canon and contemporary popular genres. Her most recent book is Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (2000).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Malignant narcissism January 19, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Whenever I listen to the Ninth Symphony I feel the urge to excerise a some male dominance and go on a "wilding" expedition....NOT!
What tripe. Just idiotic. Ludwig would eat her lunch...
A perfect example of how one cannot get a decent education at the major universities these days.
 A Joy July 18, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Though I often wished she would pause more on her musical excerpts, this book is very wise, and anyone interested in understanding meaning in music intellectually must read this book.
 Read Conventional Wisdom November 13, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book changed me from a Stravinsky-like "music has no meaning" stance. I still don't think that music is sad or happy or like a day in the country, things are more complicated than that, but I no longer feel that music is an empty if beautiful vessel. Instead music, like all actions (and non-actions), is political. I only give it a four because I would recommend her next book far more.
ENLIGHTENING BOOK August 26, 2001
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I assigned this book to my WOMEN AND MUSIC class when I taught at the University of Tennessee. It opened their eyes and ears. They have an entirely new and valuable perspective. A must read for any musician! Dr. Benjamin Boone, California State University Fresno
because it IS awful February 14, 2001
15 out of 41 found this review helpful
It's a very strange thing when "extremely harsh criticism" is cited as evidence of value. Is it just possibly that this book was harshly criticized because it deserves to be, because it is a very sorry excuse for a work of musical--and, for that matter, sociological--scholarship? I think it IS possible. I think it is more than possible; I think it is quite likely. It is "readable" for non-musicians not in spite of its "scholarly content", but only in that it lacks "scholarly content"; it is not particularly well written. Obviously, it has its partisan proponents--the sort of people who don't like having to think subtly or deeply but who still want to be taken seriously, the sort of pseudo-intellectual people who want to have it both ways--, but this is no recommendation.
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