Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu

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General notes

Developed from a conference organized by the Social Science Research Council Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-394) and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

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 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 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

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

Opera

associated with: Johnson, Victoria, 1969-
associated with: Fulcher, Jane F
associated with: Ertman, Thomas
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies