Music 230

Seminar in Contemporary Opera

 

Mimimalist Opera, Bio-Politics: Doctor Atomic

 

Arved Ashby,"Minimalist Opera,"" The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera, ed. Mervyn Cooke, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 244-66.

Yayoi Uno Everett, "John Adams's Doctor Atomic:A Faustian Parable for the Modern Age?", Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015, 124-65.

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Further Reading

Ryan Ebright, "Doctor Atomic or: How John Adams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound,", Cambridge Opera Journal 31/1 (2019), 85-117.

Alvin Lucier,"Einstein on the Beach,Notes on Experimental Music Wesleyan: Wesleyan University Press, 2012, 154-68.

Ryan Ebright, "'We Are Not Trying to Make a Political Piece.' The Reconciliatory Aesthetic of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's The Cave," Rethinking Reich, Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Sion, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 93-109.

Robert Fink, "Repetition, Speech, and Authority in Steve Reich's 'Jewish' Music," Rethinking Reich, Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Sion, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 93-109.

Lawrence Kramer, "The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception," The Opera Quarterly 23/1, (2008), 66-80.

 

 

 

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