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Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America -
become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so
many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the
United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a
screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian
nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or
championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably
been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an
inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American
societies, not only as a model of social and political organization
- one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime
example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural
and social backgrounds.
With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban
planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan
and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes
Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the
monarchy, the conflicts between the peninsula's ancient elites and
the rising middle class, and the emergence of new belief systems
and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.
This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion
of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates
on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the
Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of
transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity
associated with the production and reception of Italian opera
across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between
composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic
Italianness (italianita) constantly changed and had to be
reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of
time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera
into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a
substantial introduction discussing key concepts in
cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue
relating its findings to different historiographical trends in
transnational opera studies.
With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban
planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan
and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes
Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the
monarchy, the conflicts between the peninsula's ancient elites and
the rising middle class, and the emergence of new belief systems
and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become
so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many
people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the
United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a
screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian
nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or
championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably
been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an
inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American
societies, not only as a model of social and political organization
- one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime
example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural
and social backgrounds.
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become
so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many
people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the
United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a
screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian
nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or
championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably
been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an
inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American
societies, not only as a model of social and political organization
- one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime
example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural
and social backgrounds.
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