The Operetta Empire

Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna

The Operetta Empire
Micaela Baranello
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h229 x 152mm - 250pg
25 May 2021 US
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9780520379121
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"When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow. " Viennese operettas like Franz Lehar' s The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire' s final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehar, Emmerich Kalman, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth? ? ? century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life-one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.
Micaela Baranello is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Arkansas. Her publications include articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and the New York Times.
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ISBN-13: 9780520379121
Published: 25 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 250

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