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The nation's image : French grand opera as politics and politicized art / Jane F. Fulcher.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1727 . F84 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fulcher, Jane F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera--France.
- Opera.
- France.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state. Official intervention affected both the formation of the gentre's artistic traits and the audience's understanding of their significance.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 255-276.
- ISBN:
- 0521327741
- OCLC:
- 13794910
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