Evans, D. (2005) Speaking over and above the plot: aural fixation, scopophilia, opera and the gay sensibility. Theory, Culture and Society, 22(2), pp. 99-119. (doi: 10.1177/0263276405051667)
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Abstract
The relationship between opera and gay subcultures (especially male), lifestyle practices and consumerism has been noted by cultural critics and musicologists - the former in affirmative terms, the latter largely hostile. This article explores this relationship initially through a review of the existing literature before concentrating on the striking affinities in the discursive construction of both cultural forms. In the modem era, both opera and homo- sexuality have been stigmatized and marginalized in their respective rationalizing `scientific' domains: musicology and sexology. Both have been authoritatively declared unhealthy, both reconstructed out of the distinctive repressions of Victorianism, both subsequently searching for inclusion and legitimacy.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Artifice, Camp, Consumerism, Gay Culture, Homosexuality, Liberation, Literature, Opera, Psychosexual Disorders, Science, Social Sciences, Subculture, Voyeurism |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Evans, Dr David |
| Authors: | Evans, D. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Theory, Culture and Society |
| ISSN: | 0263-2764 |
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