Performing Arts in Changing Societies : Opera, Dance, and Theatre in European and Nordic Countries around 1800 Hardback
Edited by Randi Margrete Selvik, Svein Gladso, Anne Margrete Fiskvik
Part of the Routledge Research in Music series
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Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre, and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after 1800.
An introductory chapter outlines the theoretical and ideological background of genre thinking in Europe, starting from antiquity.
A further fourteen chapters cover the performing genres as they developed in England, France, Germany, and Austria, and follow the dissemination and adaptation of the corresponding genres in minor and major cities in the Nordic countries.
With a strong emphasis on the role that pragmatic and contextual factors had in defining genres, the book examines such subjects as the dancing masters in Christiania (Oslo), circa 1800, the repertory and travels of an itinerant acrobat and his wife in Norway in the 1760s, and the influence of Enlightenment ideas on bourgeois drama in Denmark.
Including detailed analyses in the light of material, political, and social factors, this is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of musicology, opera studies, and theatre and performance studies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:250 pages, 2 Tables, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:20/05/2020
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- ISBN:9780367243180
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:250 pages, 2 Tables, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:20/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367243180
