499 Pages
by
Routledge
499 Pages
by
Routledge
499 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1999, this original and entertaining sociological study takes a comprehensive and critical view of opera as unique cultural artefact as loss making ‘industry’, as institution with a ‘museum’ culture, and as consumed commodity of rare distinction and elaborate ritual.
Specific chapters deal with opera within the contexts of musicological analysis, auratic art and fetishized... Read more
1. Opera as Music, Text, Drama and Theatre. 2. Opera as Fetish and Taste. 3. The Opera Industry. 4. The Opera Museum. 5. Singers’ Opera. 6. Producers’ Opera. 7. ‘Operatic’ Commodities. 8. Audiences’ Opera.
Biography
David T Evans
