Titulo: Opera and Modern Culture : Wagner and Strauss (Bom Estado)Autor: Lawrence KramerESTADO: BOM ESTADOISBN/EAN: 9780520241732Editor: University of California PressAno: 2004Idioma: InglêsEncadernação: N.A.Páginas: 258Coleção: N.A.Nº. da Coleção: N.A.Código de Controlo: 4F Descrição: In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music's various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and pioneering blend of historical concreteness and theoretical awareness. Opera is legendary for going to extremes, a tendency that has earned it a reputation for unreality. "Opera and Modern Culture" shows the reverse to be true. Kramer argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy and debasement helped to define a normality that seems the very opposite of the operatic. Exemplified in a series of beloved examples, a certain idea of opera - a fiction of opera - has contributed in key ways to the modern era's characterizations of desire, identity, and social order. "Opera and Modern Culture" exposes this process at work in operas by Richard Wagner, who put modernity on the agenda in ways no one after him could ignore, and by the young Richard Strauss.
