Libby Larsen's The Birth Project: a sociological contextualization, analysis, and approach to performance interpretation

Libby Larsen’s The Birth Project (2015) is a groundbreaking song cycle which centers around pregnancy and childbirth. Until this song cycle, no art song had dealt with this topic in first-person narrative. This is surprising, given the total fertility rate of about 2.5 children per woman. After a br...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Modaff, Jessica Lynne
Other Authors: Wallace, John
Language:en_US
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/36042