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Title Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu / edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher and Thomas Ertman
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 406 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in opera
Cambridge studies in opera.
Contents 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 cutural role in the 1920s / Jane F. Fulcher -- 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 -- 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
Summary A study of opera in Italy and France from the 1600's to the present day
Notes Developed from a conference organised by the Social Science Research Council
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Opera -- Social aspects -- France -- Congresses
Opera -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Congresses
Opera -- Social aspects -- Italy
Opera -- Social aspects -- France
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
Opera -- Social aspects
Gesellschaft
Oper
Opéra -- Aspect social -- France.
Opéra -- Aspect social -- Italie.
France
Italy
Italien
Frankreich
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Victoria, 1969-
Fulcher, Jane F.
Ertman, Thomas.
Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
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