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Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle?

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This chapter explores how care ethics and care pedagogy can be applied in the realm of public musicology. It offers ideas, rationales, and cautions on how to present difficult material to general audiences in contexts such as preperformance talks. The chapter also offers some specific strategies for discussing issues of gender and “othering” in the standard operatic repertory. Works discussed include Rigoletto, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Carmen, and Madama Butterfly.

University of Illinois Press

William A. Everett Matteo Magarotto

Title: Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle?

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This chapter explores how care ethics and care pedagogy can be applied in the realm of public musicology.

It offers ideas, rationales, and cautions on how to present difficult material to general audiences in contexts such as preperformance talks.

The chapter also offers some specific strategies for discussing issues of gender and “othering” in the standard operatic repertory.

Works discussed include Rigoletto, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Carmen, and Madama Butterfly.

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