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Wagner Nights - An American History Volume 9 (Paperback)
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Wagner Nights - An American History Volume 9 (Paperback)
Series: California Studies in 19th-Century Music
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As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American
music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too,
was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph Horowitz shows in this
first history of Wagnerism in the United States--the American
obsession was unique. The central figure in Wagner Nights is
conductor Anton Seidl (1850-1898), a priestly and enigmatic
personage in New York musical life. Seidl's own admirers included
the women of the Brooklyn-based Seidl Society, who wore the letter
"S" on their dresses. In the summers, Seidl conducted fourteen
times a week at Brighton Beach, filling the three-thousand-seat
music pavilion to capacity. The fact that most Wagnerites were
women was a distinguishing feature of American Wagnerism and
constituted a vital aspect of the fin-de-siècle ferment that
anticipated the New American Woman. Drawing on the work of such
cultural historians as T. Jackson Lears and Lawrence Levine,
Horowitz's lively history reveals an "Americanized" Wagner never
documented before. An entertaining and startling read, a treasury
of operatic lore, Wagner Nights offers an unprecedented revisionist
history of American culture a century ago. This title is part of UC
Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1994.
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
California Studies in 19th-Century Music |
Release date: |
July 2022 |
Authors: |
Joseph Horowitz
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
414 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-32301-8 |
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LSN: |
0-520-32301-7 |
Barcode: |
9780520323018 |
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