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050 00 $aML423.B7$bC35 2008
082 00 $a782.1092$222
100 1 $aCalico, Joy Haslam,$d1965-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001077663
245 10 $aBrecht at the opera /$cJoy H. Calico.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axvi, 282 pages :$bmusic ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCalifornia studies in 20th-century music ;$v9
505 00 $g1.$tLehrstuck, Opera, and the New Audience Contract of the Epic Theater -- $g2.$tThe Operatic Roots of Gestus in 'The Mother' and 'Round Heads and Pointed Heads' -- $g3.$tFragments of Opera in American Exile -- $g4.$t'Lucullus': Opera and National Identity -- $g5.$tBrecht's Legacy for Opera: Estrangement and the Canon.
500 $a"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-262) and index.
520 1 $a"Brecht at the Opera takes a systematic look at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society, even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. In this book, Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstucke in the 1920s generated a new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis. Calico further considers Brecht's concept of estrangement as the dominant aesthetic in today's Regieoper, or radical productions of canonical operas. This highly original study demonstrates the myriad ways in which opera shaped Brecht's most influential theories about theater and the works he created for the stage."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBrecht, Bertolt,$d1898-1956$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBrecht, Bertolt,$d1898-1956$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aSongs and music.
650 0 $aOpera.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094900
830 0 $aCalifornia studies in 20th-century music ;$v9.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00067476
852 00 $bmus$hML423.B7$iC35 2008