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Opera in Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,647
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Opera in Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde (Hardcover): Harriet Boyd-Bennett

Opera in Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde (Hardcover)

Harriet Boyd-Bennett

Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera

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Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These cliches are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
Release date: September 2018
Authors: Harriet Boyd-Bennett
Dimensions: 253 x 179 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-16927-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
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LSN: 1-107-16927-5
Barcode: 9781107169272

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