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Democracy at the opera : music, theater, and culture in New York City, 1815-60
- Title
- Democracy at the opera : music, theater, and culture in New York City, 1815-60 / Karen Ahlquist.
- Author
- Ahlquist, Karen, 1948-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 248 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Was there opera - and just what was it like - in New York City before the advent of the Metropolitan Opera Company? In exploring these questions, Karen Ahlquist describes the social, cultural, economic, and esthetic factors that led to the assimilation of Italian opera - a complex, expensive genre of elitist reputation - into New York's business oriented community, with its English cultural heritage and sacred republican traditions. In her lively description of opera as few today can imagine it, Ahlquist considers Jacksonian-era efforts to create a polite social setting, the influence of a socially based clash between "respectability" and broad public access, and the role of music in shaping, not just reflecting, social and cultural life.
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Music in American life.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- English opera as popular culture : The Beggar's opera tradition -- Nature's new mirror : English opera and theatrical reform -- Culture and commerce : the first opera nights in New York -- "Directly from the heart" : English opera and the power of music in the age of sentiment -- The failure that flourished : early New York opera houses -- The new Italian opera and its reception -- Opera and the "higher order of composition."
- Call Number
- JNE 20-8
- ISBN
- 0252022726
- 9780252022722
- LCCN
- 96004494
- OCLC
- 34149155
- Author
- Ahlquist, Karen, 1948-
- Title
- Democracy at the opera : music, theater, and culture in New York City, 1815-60 / Karen Ahlquist.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Music in American lifeMusic in American life.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JNE 20-8