Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu (Cambridge Studies in Opera) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521124204 ISBN 13: 9780521124201

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.

About this title

Book Description:

This edited volume focuses on opera in Italy and France from the 1600s to the present day. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.

About the Author:

Thomas Ertman is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521124204
• ISBN 13: 9780521124201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Johnson Victoria, Fulcher Jane F., Ertman Thomas