Irene Morra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1379411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Morra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Morra |
| SIGNATURE | MORRA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La santé des femmes immigrées d'origine italienne vieillissantes en France
Si l’expérience de la vieillesse constitue une épreuve, les manières de la traverser dépendent fortement des supports d’aide formelle et informelle qui peuvent être mobilisés. Pour les femmes âgées d’origine italienne rencontrées dans l’agglomération grenobloise, l’épreuve revêt une dimension sociale autant que somatique. La problématique du lien est centrale dans leurs évocations. Pour les accompagner, enfants et petits-enfants organisent leur s…
Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity
This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the domi…
Outstaring the Sun
This article considers the notion of the literary librettist in contemporary opera with reference to Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley's 2008 collaboration For You. The author details the reception of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur (2008), traces the history of the disgruntled librettist with reference to John Dryden and Edward Bond, and assesses McEwan's own views on opera with reference to The Magic Flute. She reads the For You libretto…
Muddying the Wells’
Irene Morra shows how the conflict between words and music that was contested in “Billy Budd” can be extended to almost all modern British opera. Morra argues persuasively that a number of modernist writers came to view the libretto “as an alternative literary genre, one that would allow for the expression of literary ideals of musicality”
Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity
This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the domi…
Muddying the Wells’
Irene Morra shows how the conflict between words and music that was contested in “Billy Budd” can be extended to almost all modern British opera. Morra argues persuasively that a number of modernist writers came to view the libretto “as an alternative literary genre, one that would allow for the expression of literary ideals of musicality”
Outstaring the Sun
This article considers the notion of the literary librettist in contemporary opera with reference to Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley's 2008 collaboration For You. The author details the reception of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur (2008), traces the history of the disgruntled librettist with reference to John Dryden and Edward Bond, and assesses McEwan's own views on opera with reference to The Magic Flute. She reads the For You libretto…
Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity
This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the domi…
La santé des femmes immigrées d'origine italienne vieillissantes en France
Si l’expérience de la vieillesse constitue une épreuve, les manières de la traverser dépendent fortement des supports d’aide formelle et informelle qui peuvent être mobilisés. Pour les femmes âgées d’origine italienne rencontrées dans l’agglomération grenobloise, l’épreuve revêt une dimension sociale autant que somatique. La problématique du lien est centrale dans leurs évocations. Pour les accompagner, enfants et petits-enfants organisent leur s…
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Opera (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 work) · Art history (1 work)