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Music --- Music and state --- Opera --- Musique --- Opéra --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Aspect social --- Aspect politique --- Politique gouvernementale --- France --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Opéra --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Singspiel --- -Music --- -Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Operas --- History and criticism --- Music and society --- Political sociology --- Theatrical science --- Sociology of culture --- Social aspects. --- History --- 19th century --- 78.77.4 --- 78.77.0

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The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. This book demonstrates how music is becoming a unique mode of access into specific cites of cultural representation, exchange, contestation, and the construction of experience.

Musicology. --- Kulturgeschichtsschreibung. --- Kulturhistoria --- Musik --- Musik. --- Musikvetenskap. --- Estetik --- Music --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Historia. --- Musique --- Histoire et critique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Musicology --- Musicologie --- Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Guides, manuels, etc --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Histoire et critique. --- 78.81 --- Philosophie et esthétique. --- Philosophie et esthétique.

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This work argues that French musical meanings and values in the years from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of artistic movements, but rather of the political culture, which was undergoing subtle but profound transformation as nationalist leagues enlarged the arena of political action.

Music --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Social aspects --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics.

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French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state. Using the Opera's archives, she analyses the mechanism and goals of state intervention in the theatre and how these underwent subtle change. As she demonstrates, the official framework helped to shape not only the nature of artistic development, but also politicized the theatrical experience itself. Although concerned with the audience's understanding of the operas, this book is not narrowly a 'reception history'. Rather, it is an attempt to see the part played by grand opera in a specific social and cultural context - how it arose within larger structures and in turn reacted back finally upon them.

Opera --- Opera --- Political aspects --- History

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This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.

Music --- Theatrical science --- France --- Italy --- Opera --- Social aspects --- Opéra --- Aspect social --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism