Author: YARAMAN, SEVIN H.
Title: Revolving Embrace: The Waltz As Sex, Steps, and Sound
Description: Hillsdale, N. Y.: Pendragon Press, 2002. Softcover. ISBN: 1576470431. (Monographs in Musicology) Series; B & W ; 6 X 9"; x, 157 pages; Soft cover has purple spine with black lettering. Slight rubbing to covers, and crease at bottom front corner. Light pencil shadow on title page. Pages are clean and tight. Book appears as if unused. Illustrated with b/w pictures and music. 'At the beginning of the 19th century the waltz brought men and women face-to-face, dancing tightly embraced and staring into each other's eyes, a position that provoked a great deal of anxiety in many circles: bishops of Austria signed decrees against waltzing, France banned it at court, and even Leo XII sought to suppress the waltz by papal decree. Nevertheless, composers wrote waltzes for the ballrooms, and the new bourgeoisie of Europe enjoyed the freedom and informality of the dance. The reception of the waltz as music was informed by 19th-century views on women. As a result, the waltz-- both dance and music--acquired a distinctly gendered meaning. In Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's La Bohème, and Berg's Wozzeck, the composers relied on the waltz's contradictory meanings of individual pleasure and social disapprobation to portray the women characters and their roles in the development of the plot. The popularity of the waltz persisted beyond the original era of the Viennese waltz...' Appendix; bibliography; index.. Near Fine .

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