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The opera fanatic : ethnography of an obsession
- Title
- The opera fanatic : ethnography of an obsession / Claudio E. Benzecry.
- Author
- Benzecry, Claudio E.
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML1700 .B326 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780226043401 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226043401 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226043425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226043428 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010034632
- 40019565026
- OCLC
- ocn657223875
- 657223875
- SCSB-14497856
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries