Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
By: edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher and Thomas Ertman
Contributors: Johnson, Victoria, 1969-; Fulcher, Jane F; Ertman, Thomas
Series: Cambridge studies in opera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780521856751
Subjects: Opera -- Social aspects -- Italy; Opera -- Social aspects -- France
Notes: Developed from a conference organised by the Social Science Research Council

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller; title: Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick; title: Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler; title: Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André; title: The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cutural role in the 1920s / Jane F. Fulcher; title: State and market, production and style : an interdisciplinary approach to eighteenth-century Italian opera history / Franco Piperno; title: Opera and the cultural authority of the capital city / William Weber; title: "Edizioni distrutte" and the significance of operatic choruses during the Risorgimento / Philip Gossett; title: Opera in France, 1870-1914 : between nationalism and foreign imports / Christophe Charle; title: Fascism and the operatic unconscious / Michael P. Steinberg and Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg; title: On opera and society (assuming a relationship) / Herbert Lindenberger; title: Symbolic domination and contestation in French music : shifting the paradigm from Adorno to Bourdieu / Jane F. Fulcher; title: Rewriting history from the losers' point of view : French grand opera and modernity / Antoine Hennion; title: Conclusion : towards a new understanding of the history of opera? / Thomas Ertman