Opera and modern culture : Wagner and Strauss / Lawrence Kramer.

By: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004Description: 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0520241738 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas | Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Operas | Opera -- Social aspects | Sex in opera | Music -- Philosophy and aestheticsDDC classification: 782.1/092/243 LOC classification: ML1700 | .K715 2004Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Prologue : thinking through opera with Wagner and Strauss -- Opera : two or three things I know about her -- Contesting Wagner : the Lohengrin prelude and anti-anti-semitism -- The waters of Prometheus : nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring -- Enchantment and modernity : Wagner the symptom -- Modernity's cutting edge : the Salome complex -- Video as Jugendstil : Salome, visuality, and performance -- Fin-de-siáecle fantasies : Elektra and the culture of supremacism -- Epilogue : voice and its beyonds.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : thinking through opera with Wagner and Strauss -- Opera : two or three things I know about her -- Contesting Wagner : the Lohengrin prelude and anti-anti-semitism -- The waters of Prometheus : nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring -- Enchantment and modernity : Wagner the symptom -- Modernity's cutting edge : the Salome complex -- Video as Jugendstil : Salome, visuality, and performance -- Fin-de-siáecle fantasies : Elektra and the culture of supremacism -- Epilogue : voice and its beyonds.

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