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Chopin at the Boundaries : Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
Chopin at the Boundaries Sex History and Musical Genre - Convergences: Inventories of the Present Author:Jeffrey Kallberg The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his s... more »omewhat marginal sexual identity.« less