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Opera and modern culture Wagner and Strauss

Title
Opera and modern culture [electronic resource] : Wagner and Strauss / Lawrence Kramer.
Author
Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

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Description
1 online resource (257 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Opera and modern culture (Online)
Alternative Title
Opera and modern culture (Online)
Subject
  • Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
  • Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
  • Opera > Social aspects
  • Sex in opera
  • Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Prologue : thinking through opera with Wagner and Strauss -- Opera : two or three things I know about her -- Contesting Wagner : the Lohengrin prelude and anti-anti-semitism -- The waters of Prometheus : nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring -- Enchantment and modernity : Wagner the symptom -- Modernity's cutting edge : the Salome complex -- Video as Jugendstil : Salome, visuality, and performance -- Fin-de-siècle fantasies : Elektra and the culture of supremacism -- Epilogue : voice and its beyonds.
ISBN
0520241738 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003025286
OCLC
ssj0000700751
Author
Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-
Title
Opera and modern culture [electronic resource] : Wagner and Strauss / Lawrence Kramer.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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