Since the recent release of Wayne Koestenbaum's pathbreaking book, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has begun to take an active interest in music. Opera, long viewed as strictly an establishment tradition, has in particular been given a second look by gender theorists. Can opera, an antiquated, Eurocentric bastion of 'high' culture-in fact be subverting patriarchal authority in some fundamental way?
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Since the recent release of Wayne Koestenbaum's pathbreaking book, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has begun to take an active interest in music. Opera, long viewed as strictly an establishment tradition, has in particular been given a second look by gender theorists. Can opera, an antiquated, Eurocentric bastion of 'high' culture-in fact be subverting patriarchal authority in some fundamental way?
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