Opera and the Culture of Fascism

by Jeremy Tambling

Overview

Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198165668
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1996
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1440L (what's this?)