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 or
repertories. Their broad range enables their collective examination
of the ways in which all aspects of performance and reception were
affected by the transfer of works, performers, and management
models from one environment to another. By focusing on this
interplay between institutions and individuals, the authors
illuminate the tension between institutional conventions and
artistic creation during the heady period when Parisian stage music
reached its zenith.
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