TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vlado Kotnik Ph.D.
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Opera, Power and Ideology
T2  - Anthropological Study of a National Art in Slovenia
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1136213
N2  - 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.
KW  - anthropology of opera, national art, Slovenian opera, Slovenian culture, Slovenian identity
LA  - English
ER  -