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The Resource Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde, Harriet Boyd-Bennett, (electronic resource)

Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde, Harriet Boyd-Bennett, (electronic resource)

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Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These clichés are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.--
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Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde
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Opera in postwar Venice
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cultural politics and the avant-garde
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Harriet Boyd-Bennett
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eng
Summary
Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These clichés are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.--
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1969-
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Boyd-Bennett, Harriet
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  • Cambridge studies in opera
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde, Harriet Boyd-Bennett, (electronic resource)
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Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781316718476
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digital, PDF file(s).
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(OCoLC)1050321294
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Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde, Harriet Boyd-Bennett, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718476
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online resource
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text
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rdacontent
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CR9781316718476
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unknown
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1 online resource (xv, 226 pages)
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online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781316718476
Media category
computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)1050321294

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