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Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer
Fauser, Annegret, Everist, Mark
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Description for Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer
Hardcover. Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. This book explores the institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Editor(s): Fauser, Annegret; Everist, Mark. Num Pages: 440 pages, 37 halftones, 5 musical examples, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; AVGC9; AVGM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 257 x 31. Weight in Grams: 986.
Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, "Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer" explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city's musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters ... Read more
Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, "Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer" explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city's musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226239262
SKU
V9780226239262
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About Fauser, Annegret, Everist, Mark
Annegret Fauser is professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mark Everist is professor of music at the University of Southampton.
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