| Description |
xxxii, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Cambridge studies in opera |
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Cambridge studies in opera.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Developed from a conference organized by the Social Science Research Council. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-394) and index. |
| 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. Fulcher. |
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The 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-Steinberg. |
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Theorizing 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Cambridge studies in opera]) Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Subject |
Opera -- Social aspects -- Italy.
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Opera -- Social aspects -- France.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Victoria, 1969-
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Fulcher, Jane F.
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Ertman, Thomas.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780521856751 |
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0521856752 |
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0511277636 |
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9780511277634 |
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0511278225 |
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9780511278228 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb07565 hdl |
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