Music theater as global culture
Subtitle: Wagner's legacy today
By: herausagegeben von Anno Mungen, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Julie Hubbert, Ivana Rentsch, Arne Stollberg ; unter Mitarbeit von Bernd Hobe
Contributors: Mungen, Anno, editor; Vazsonyi, Nicholas, 1963- editor; Hubbert, Julia Bess, editor; Rentsch, Ivana, editor; Stollberg, Arne, editor
Series: Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater -- Band 25; Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater -- Bd. 25.
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Würzburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9783826054303
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Anniversaries; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Selected contributions from 2 conferences held in Columbia, South Carolina and in Bayreuth, Thurnau and Nuremberg as part of WagnerWorldWide 2013, an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth.

18 English, 2 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

18 English, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: WagnerWorldWide: interdisciplinary and international approaches / Anno Mungen; title: History and nationalism: Introduction / Nicholas Vazsonyi; title: Wagner's Parsifal as art and ideology, 1882-1933 / William Kinderman; title: Bayreuth and the German war effort: Karl Ritter's Stukas / Hans Rudolf Vaget; title: Twilight of an empire: staging Wagner in wartime Tokyo / Brooke McCorkle; title: Opera and politics: Die Meistersinger in New York City during World War II / Gwen d'Amico; title: Globalization and markets. Einleitung / Ivana Rentsch; title: Wagner goes east (and back again...): operatic performance between Europe and China / Barbara Mittler; title: Die Kulturikone Richard Wagner als Testimonial der Marke Bayreuth; title: eine Marketingperspektive / Claas Christian Germelsmann und Pablo Neder; title: Wagnerians then and now / Elfi Vomberg; title: Globalization and the domestic reception of Wagnerian music drama / Matthew Blackmar; title: Nature and environment: Einleitung / Arne Stollberg; title: Wagner's Ring as eco-parable / Thomas Grey; title: Luigi Nono's analytical remarks on Tristan und Isolde and the manifestation of nature in Wagner's music / Joachim Junker; title: Performing Wagner: Francesca Zambello's San Francisco Ring cycle as an example of performative translation; title: from Bayreuth to the American West / Geoffrey Green; title: Gender and sexuality: Einleitung / Anno Mungen; title: Wagner unmanned / Sanna Pederson; title: Is it a man's world? The construction of masculinities in Wagner / Gregor Herzfeld; title: Women's Wagner: reflections on a scattered reception / Celia Applegate; title: Oper, Erotik, Körper: wie Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient Wagners Venus wurde / Anno Mungen; title: Film and media: Introduction / Julie Hubbert; title: "What's Wagner, Doc?": Nineteenth-century German opera and contemporary American popular culture / Walter C. Metz; title: Staging a debate: from Kriegenburg's Ring cycle to Saar Magal's Hacking Wagner / Olaf A. Schmitt; title: Wagner and Fortuny: designs for the Bayreuth Theater / Wendy Ligon Smith; title: Loathsome Deutschtum? Wagner, propaganda and American industrial films of the 1930s and 1940s / Julie Hubbert; title: Wagner's form, Chéreau's scene, Large's cuts: analytical dialogues between music, theater, and video / Christian Thorau.