Democracy at the opera :music, theater, and culture in New York City, 1815-60
- 作者: Ahlquist, Karen Ethel.
- 出版: Urbana : University of Illinois Press c1997.
- 稽核項: xvii, 248 p. :music ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Music in American life
- 標題: History and criticism. , Music 19th century -- History and criticism. , Opera , Music and society. , Opera New York (State) -- New York. , Music
- ISBN: 0252022726 , 9780252022722
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-237) and index. English opera as popular culture : The Beggar's opera tradition -- Nature's new mirror : English opera and theatrical reform -- Culture and commerce : the first "opera nights" in New York -- "From the heart to the heart" : English opera and the power of music in the age of sentiment -- The "failure" that flourished : "aristocracy" and "democracy" in the antebellum opera house -- The new Italian opera and its reception -- Opera and the "higher order" of composition.
- 系統號: 005140928
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Was there opera - and just what was it like - in New York City before the advent of the Metropolitan Opera Company? In exploring these questions, Karen Ahlquist describes the social, cultural, economic, and esthetic factors that led to the assimilation of Italian opera - a complex, expensive genre of elitist reputation - into New York's business oriented community, with its English cultural heritage and sacred republican traditions. In her lively description of opera as few today can imagine it, Ahlquist considers Jacksonian-era efforts to create a polite social setting, the influence of a socially based clash between "respectability" and broad public access, and the role of music in shaping, not just reflecting, social and cultural life.
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