Visions of the Village: Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera - Couverture rigide

Campo-Bowen, Christopher

 
9780197602034: Visions of the Village: Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0197602037 ISBN 13 : 9780197602034
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2025

Synopsis

Visions of the Village offers a nuanced account of the cultural history, political salience, and social resonances of Czech village operas, especially those by composers Bed%rich Smetana, Antonín Dvo%rák, and Leoš Janáček. By examining music-critical writings, institutional and government records, letters, and other archival sources, Christopher Campo-Bowen examines how musical representations of the idealized village acquired and provided meaning for Czech audiences, serving as the basis for understandings of a wide range of sociocultural and political issues, including gender, class, nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and race.

This book explores how operas like Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Dvo%rák's The Devil and Kate, and Janáček's Jenůfa served as focal points for the articulation of an essentialist sense of Czech identity. In addition to composers and their operas, Campo-Bowen investigates the output of critics, administrators, and other urban intellectuals like Otakar Hostinský, František Adolf %Subert, and Zdeněk Nejedlý to understand the impact of village operas on public discourse. Through this in-depth analysis, this book uncovers how music functions at the nexus of the desire for politically resonant ethnoracial identities and the representation of ruralness, from the nineteenth century to the present.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher Campo-Bowen is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on the relationships between opera, race/ethnicity, gender, and empire, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197602037
ISBN 13 
9780197602034
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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