- Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 246 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Opera fanatic (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Opera fanatic (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- An opera house for the "Paris of South America" -- "It was love at first sight": biography and social trajectory of standing-room dwellers -- Foreground -- Becoming an opera fan: cultural membership, mediation, and differentiation -- Moral listening: symbolic boundaries, work on the self, and passionate engagement -- Heroes, pilgrims, addicts, and nostalgics: repertories of engagement in the quest for transcendence -- Finale -- "They were playing in their shirtsleeves!" downfall, memory work end high-culture nationalism -- "We've told you all about our life": conclusions and implications.
- LCCN
- 2010034632
- OCLC
- ssj0000555248
- Author
Benzecry, Claudio E.
- Title
The opera fanatic [electronic resource] : ethnography of an obsession / Claudio E. Benzecry.
- Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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