Opera, Power and Ideology
Anthropological Study of a National Art in Slovenia
©2010
Monographs
210 Pages
Summary
Opera is able to offer enchanting performance sites, in which people create and experience glamorous or ecstatic imagined worlds, but behind this picture we find a real social organization embraced by reality, which makes opera’s world and its history accessible for ethnographic enquiry, historical reflection and cultural analysis. This book therefore presents the author’s original anthropological study, which shows complex historical, socio-cultural, political, economic, ideological, academic and ethnographic facets of opera culture in Slovenia, including the field sites of both Slovenian national opera houses, in Ljubljana and Maribor. The study explicates how social representations of opera are produced and enacted by different social agents involved within the Slovenian national operatic habitus, and how opera is used as an idealized vision of nationhood and national identity in a provincial society.
Details
- Pages
- 210
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631596289
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- anthropology of opera national art Slovenian opera Slovenian culture Slovenian identity
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 210 pp., 5 tables, 6 graphs
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