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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu

Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher and Thomas Ertman c2007 © Cambridge University Press
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Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Opera
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521856751 (hardcover)
  • 9780511321931 (ebook)
Subject
  • Dance & Performance History
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of illustrations (page xi)
  • List of tables (page xii)
  • List of musical examples (page xiii)
  • Notes on contributors (page xv)
  • Foreword (Craig Calhoun, page xxi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxxii)
  • Introduction: Opera and the academic turns (Victoria Johnson, page 1)
  • I The Representation of Social and Political Relations in Operatic Works
    • Introduction to Part I (Jane F. Fulcher, page 29)
    • 1 Venice's mythic empires: Truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera (Wendy Heller, page 34)
    • 2 Lully's on-stage societies (Rebecca Harris-Warrick, page 53)
    • 3 Representations of le peuple in French opera, 1673-1764 (Catherine Kintzler, page 72)
    • 4 Women's roles in Meyerbeer's operas: How Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera (Naomi André, page 87)
    • 5 The effect of a bomb in the hall: The French "opera of ideas" and its cultural role in the 1920s (Jane F. Fulcher, page 115)
  • II The Institutional Bases for the Production and Reception of Opera
    • Introduction to Part II (Thomas Ertman, page 135)
    • 6 State and market, production and style: An interdisciplinary approach to eighteenth-century Italian opera history (Franco Piperno, page 138)
    • 7 Opera and the cultural authority of the capital city (William Weber, page 160)
    • 8 "Edizioni distrutte" and the significance of operatic choruses during the Risorgimento (Philip Gossett, page 181)
    • 9 Opera in France, 1870-1914: Between nationalism and foreign imports (Christophe Charle. Translated by Jennifer Boittin, page 243)
    • 10 Fascism and the operatic unconscious (Michael P. Steinberg and Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, page 267)
  • III Theorizing Opera and the Social
    • Introduction to Part III (Victoria Johnson, page 291)
    • 11 On opera and society (assuming a relationship) (Herbert Lindenberger, page 294)
    • 12 Symbolic domination and contestation in French music: Shifting the paradigm from Adorno to Bourdieu (Jane F. Fulcher, page 312)
    • 13 Rewriting history from the losers' point of view: French Grand Opera and modernity (Antoine Hennion. Translated by Sarah Boittin, page 330)
    • 14 Conclusion: Towards a new understanding of the history of opera? (Thomas Ertman, page 351)
  • Bibliography (page 364)
  • Index (page 395)
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