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Center stage : operatic culture and nation building in nineteenth-century Central Europe
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ISBN: 1612493300 1612493297 9781612493305 9781612493299 9781557536754 1557536759 Year: 2014 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press,

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"Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon which this book concentrates. This volume, a revised and extended version of two well-reviewed books published in German and Czech, explores the social and political background to this "opera mania" in nineteenth century Central Europe. After tracing the major trends in the opera history of the period, including the emergence of national genres of opera and its various social functions and cultural meanings, the author contrasts the histories of the major houses in Dresden (a court theater), Lemberg (a theater built and sponsored by aristocrats), and Prague (a civic institution). Beyond the operatic institutions and their key stage productions, composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Bedřich Smetana, Stanisław Moniuszko, Antonín Dvořák, and Richard Strauss are put in their social and political contexts. The concluding chapter, bringing together the different leitmotifs of social and cultural history explored in the rest of the book, explains the specificities of opera life in Central Europe within a wider European and global framework"--


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150 jaar muziekleven en Vlaamse beweging : "het lied in ziel en mond"
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ISBN: 9020914243 9789020914245 Year: 1987 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo


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Nationalism, chauvinism and racism as reflected in european musical thought and in compositions from the interwar period
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ISBN: 3631787278 9783631787274 3631795890 3631795904 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group

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This book concerns the ways in which many different types of nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period, and how the leading artistic personalities of that period reacted to these ideologies. The concept of "nationalism" is understood broadly in this book and covers the entire spectrum of its positive and negative aspects. The topics listed in the book’s title have been discussed on the example of selected four countries, significant with respect to population and territory and representing different social-political systems: Germany (mostly after 1933), Italy, Poland (after 1926) and Great Britain. This selection is also representative of the main ethnic groups in Europe: Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Latin-Romance and Slavic.


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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula
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ISBN: 0252054857 0252055292 0252045327 0252087445 Year: 2023 Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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"What does music in Spain and Portugal reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building? How do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore these and other essential questions from a range of interdisciplinary vantage points. The essays pay particular attention to the role played by the state in deciding what music represents Spanish or Portuguese identity. Case studies examine many aspects of the issue, including local recording networks, so-called national style in popular music, and music's role in both political protest and heritage regimes. Topics include the ways the Franco and Salazar regimes adapted music to align with their ideological agendas; the twenty-first century impact of Spain and Portugal on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage program; and the tensions that arise between institutions and community in creating and recreating meanings and identity around music"--

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Sound recording industry. --- Nationalism in music. --- National songs. --- Music --- Music and state. --- Sound recording industry --- National songs --- Music and state --- Political aspects. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- Spain. --- Portugal. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Nationalism and music --- National music --- State and music --- Cultural policy --- Anthems, National --- National anthems --- Songs, National --- Patriotic music --- Songs --- Folk songs --- Audio recording industry --- Popular music record industry --- Record companies --- Record industry --- Record music industry --- Recorded music industry --- Recording industry --- Music trade --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- al-Burtughāl --- al-Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- Burtughāl --- Jumhūrī-i Purtughāl --- Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- Portekiz --- Portekiz Cumhuriyeti --- Portogalia --- Portogallo --- Portugál Köztársaság --- Portugal --- Portugali --- Portugalia --- Portugalii͡ --- Portugalská republika --- Portugalʹskai͡a Respublika --- Portugalsko --- Portugiesische Republik --- Portuguese Republic --- Porutogaru --- Porutogaru Kyōwakoku --- P'orŭt'ugal --- P'orŭt'ugal Konghwaguk --- Purtughāl --- Putaoya --- Putaoya Gongheguo --- Repubblica Portoghese --- Republica Portughez --- República Portuguesa --- Republika Portugalska --- République portugaise --- Sefarad --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein

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