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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu, edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher, and Thomas Ertman

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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu, edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher, and Thomas Ertman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-394) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
74523243
Responsibility statement
edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher, and Thomas Ertman
Series statement
Cambridge studies in opera
Table Of Contents
The representation of social and political relations in operatic works : introduction to part I / Jane F. Fulcher -- Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cultural role in the 1920s / Jane F. FulcherThe institutional bases for the production and reception of opera : introduction to part II / Thomas Ertman -- State and market, production and style : an interdisciplinary approach to eighteenth-century Italian opera history / Franco Piperno -- Opera and the cultural authority of the capital city / William Weber -- "Edizioni distrutte" and the significance of operatic choruses during the Risorgimento / Philip Gossett -- Opera in France, 1870-1914 : between nationalism and foreign imports / Christophe Charle -- Fascism and the operatic unconscious / Michael P. Steinberg and Suzanne Stewart-SteinbergTheorizing opera and the social : introduction to part III / Victoria Johnson -- On opera and society (assuming a relationship) / Herbert Lindenberger -- Symbolic domination and contestation in French music : shifting the paradigm from Adorno to Bourdieu / Jane F. Fulcher -- Rewriting history from the losers' point of view : French grand opera and modernity / Antoine Hennion -- Conclusion : towards a new understanding of the history of opera? / Thomas Ertman
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