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Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire

Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire

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GLBTQIA StudiesMusic Instruction: Piano

ISBN10: 0804725977
ISBN13: 9780804725972
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 1 1996
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A vivid (and startling) example of the new musicology, this book is an interdisciplinary study of romantic pianism in relation to gender and sexuality. Discussing erotic anxieties of musical amateurs, sexual myths concerning child prodigies, prurient interests in virtuosos, castrating figurations of maiden piano teachers, and the phenomenon of Liberace, the author underscores the extent to which the piano resonates with homosexuality and mortality.

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