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The Operetta Empire - Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna (Hardcover)
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The Operetta Empire - Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna (Hardcover)
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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "When the world comes to an
end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big
city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese
operettas like Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow were preeminent
cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years.
Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary
debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire
delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators
simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the
popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by
Lehar, Emmerich Kalman, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of
current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow
culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early
twentieth-century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and
redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello
establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural
life-one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies
of its day.
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