Voicing rupture : resisting docility through performances of feminine agency in Arnold Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Music Majoring in Classical Performance, New Zealand School of Music

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dc.contributor.authorThirlwall, Imogen
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-20T04:34:27Z
dc.date.available2014-08-20T04:34:27Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionAccompanying DVD (music recital) held with hard copy in the library
dc.description.abstractMy experience of learning and performing Arnold Schoenberg’s song cycle, Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, can be explored through the lens of Foucault’s ‘docile bodies’ theory – that is, bodies that are ‘subjected, used, transformed, improved’. Participating in the disciplinary practice of self-policing, my obedience to the social, cultural and musical orders shaping western art song performance is enforced through self-imposed internalisation of normative practices and values. The singer’s body – my own body – is regulated in the Foucauldian sense; ‘disciplined’ through training and conditioning to align with normative practices, and, simultaneously, I act as ‘discipliner’ through self-imposed policing and monitoring of my body. The compulsive need to engage in the acts and processes of discipline implies inherent deficiency or deviance; the body must be transformed and ‘corrected’ through the processes of discipline that reflect the internalised value systems a body is measured against. In this exegesis, I explore my processes of self-regulation as disciplined and discipliner, investigating an intersection of ideals and tensions in my pursuit of technical command of vocal technique, obedience to the score, and the expectation of emotional abandon that an expressionist song cycle demands. Framed through narratives of ‘service’ and ‘prohibition’, I position the political anatomy of an eroticised, reproductive female body, exploring resistance and ‘rupture’ through the sexual agency of a disobedient and disruptive female singer.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/5620
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectMichel Foucaulten_US
dc.subjectArnold Schoenbergen_US
dc.subjectBuch der hangenden Gartenen_US
dc.subjectSex role in musicen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Musicen_US
dc.titleVoicing rupture : resisting docility through performances of feminine agency in Arnold Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Music Majoring in Classical Performance, New Zealand School of Musicen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorThirlwall, Imogenen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineClassical Performanceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Music (M.Mus.)en_US
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