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Opera and the Culture of Fascism (Hardcover, New)
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Opera and the Culture of Fascism (Hardcover, New)
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This study looks at nineteenth - and early twentieth-century opera
as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and
threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and
contemporary high form of art altogether. Jeremy Tambling
highlights the themes of the cultural crisis through a detailed
discussion of some dozen operas and a general overview of the works
of Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, and others, drawing on the
writings of Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Heidegger, for an
understanding of the ideological background. Reading fascism as a
political, intellectual, and psychological phenomenon, the author
draws on the works of Bataille, Theweleit, and Kristeva, for
discussion of proto-fascist and fascist thought, and for its
relation to gender-politics. Resisting the cliches about Wagner or
Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich, Tambling takes the opera
out the hermetically sealed-off state in which it is normally
discussed, and presents it as both complicit in, and in opposition
to, the reactionary and regressive pressures that made up the
`culture of fascism', and those that tried to make opera part of
the `fascism of culture'.
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