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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Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionxxxii, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Other author/creatorJohnson, Victoria, 1969-
Other author/creatorFulcher, Jane F.
Other author/creatorErtman, Thomas.
Other author/creatorAmerican Council of Learned Societies.
SeriesCambridge 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.
General noteDeveloped from a conference organised by the Social Science Research Council.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 364-394) and index.
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