The Erotic Muse
Title | The Erotic Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Cray |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780252067891 |
If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.
The Erotic Muse
Title | The Erotic Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Cray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Bawdy songs |
ISBN |
The Erotic Muse
Title | The Erotic Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Cray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Bawdy songs |
ISBN | 9780515028010 |
Garry Shead and the Erotic Muse
Title | Garry Shead and the Erotic Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Sasha Grishin |
Publisher | Fine Art Publishing |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781877004018 |
Garry Shead is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed lyrical figurative painters and has been in the public eye since his first solo exhibition mid 1960s. Grishin argues that despite the stylistic diversity, there exists a single unifying thread throughout his work an erotic impulse.
The Muse as Eros
Title | The Muse as Eros PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Downes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351218379 |
The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity, and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each of the chapters begins with explorations into male artists' relationships with their Muse, and moves to analysis and interpretation which uncovers cultural constructions of masculine artistic inspiration and production, and their association with creatively inspiring and erotically charged relationships with a Muse. New insights are offered into the musical meaning and cultural significance of selected works by Rossini, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner, Sibelius, Mahler, Bartók, Scriabin, Szymanowski, Debussy, Berg, Poulenc and Weill.
The Erotic Muse
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Release | 1969 |
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Erotic Citizens
Title | Erotic Citizens PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Dill |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813943388 |
What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America’s early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era’s proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy manifests not an anxiety about the dangers of unfettered feeling but an endorsement of it. Uncovering the more prurient aspects of nation-building, Erotic Citizens establishes the narrative of sexual ruin as a genre whose sustained rejection of marriage acted as a critique of that which traditionally defines a democracy: the social contract and the sovereign individual. Through an examination of philosophical tracts, political cartoons, frontispiece illustrations, portraiture, and the novel from the antebellum period, this study reconsiders how the terms of embodiment and selfhood function to define national belonging. From an enslaved woman’s story of survival in North Carolina to a philosophical treatise penned by an English earl, the readings employ the trope of sexual ruin to tell their tales. Such narratives advanced the political possibilities of the sympathetic body, looking beyond the marriage contract as the model for democratic citizenship. Against the cult of the individual that once seemed to define the era, Erotic Citizens argues that the most radical aspect of the Revolution was not the invention of a self-governing body but the recognition of a self whose body is ungovernable.