Postwar Modernity and the Wife's Subjectivity: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Elizabeth Keathley, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Leonard Bernstein's short opera Trouble in Tahiti (1951-52) is a humorous but scathing satire on postwar consumerism and bourgeois marriage. Such critiques are now so commonplace that it may be difficult to appreciate the opera's political edge unless it is seen against the backdrop of repression that marked the years following World War II: in an era in which a group as mainstream as the League of Women Voters was denounced as a "communist front organization," Trouble in Tahiti's criticisms risked reprisals.[1]
Postwar Modernity and the Wife's Subjectivity: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti
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Additional Information
- Publication
- American Music, Vol. 23 No. 2 (Summer 2005): 220-257
- Language: English
- Date: 2005
- Keywords
- Musicals, Leonard Bernstein, Trouble in Tahiti, Gender, Feminism, Post World War II era