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100 1 $aFeldman, Martha.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89638961
245 10 $aOpera and sovereignty :$btransforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy /$cMartha Feldman.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2007.
300 $axxv, 545 pages, 4 pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), music ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [443]-492) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEvenings at the opera -- $g2.$tArias : form, feeling, exchange -- $g3.$tProgramming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study -- $g4.$tFestivity and time -- $g5.$tAbandonments in a theater state, Naples, 1764 : second case study -- $g6.$tMyths of sovereignty -- $g7.$tBourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781 : third case stdy -- $g8.$tMorals and malcontents -- $g9.$tDeath of the sovereign, Venice, 1797 : fourth case study.
520 1 $a"Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Mozart, and Cimarosa. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria was a product of its time, indexing the confident claims of absolutism early in the century and the political and social upheavals of its later years." "Taking an anthropological approach to European music that is as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera's shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, embedded in festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolutist ideals while demanding sustained audience attention. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In doing so, Feldman brings to life what audiences experienced, demonstrating why the form was such a great international success and explaining ways that audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Interdisciplinary, with provocative new tools for approaching all opera, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, performance studies, and the history of the Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aOpera$zItaly$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006004028
650 0 $aMythology, Classical, in opera.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003002225
650 0 $aOpera$xSocial aspects$zItaly$xHistory$y18th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026243.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2006026243-d.html
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