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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Victoria, 1969-

Fulcher, Jane F.

Ertman, Thomas.

Series:

Cambridge studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Social aspects--France.

Opera.

Opera--Social aspects--Italy.

Opera--Social aspects.

Italy.

France.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This edited volume is the first book to bring together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesize recent advances in social science with recent advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of 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 cultural 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.

Notes:

Developed from a conference organised by the Social Science Research Council.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521856751

0521856752

OCLC:

74523243