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Faculty News : Sep 4, 2014

Silvio dos Santos publishes Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg’s Lulu

Dr. Silvio dos Santos, associate professor of musicology, has published his book titled Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg’s Lulu with the University of Rochester Press

Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg’s Lulu examines Berg’s transformation of Frank Wedekind’s Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora, the plays used in the formation of the libretto for Lulu, according to notions of gender identity, social customs and the aesthetics of modernity in the Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s. 

Additionally, Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg’s Lulu was a recipient of the American Musicological Society’s prestigious AMS 75 PAYS Subvention Award. The purpose of this subvention is to facilitate the publication of original and significant research in any recognized field of musicology by providing financial support to publishers in order to offset the costs of book production and thereby reduce the retail price of the book.

View the book here.