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- Title
Amerikavnüde/Europavnüde: The Very Idea of American Opera.
- Authors
GOEHR, LYDIA
- Abstract
The article presents an exploration into the ideological history and aesthetics of American opera. The institutional and philosophical foundations of what the U.S. symbolized in 19th and 20th century music history and theory are explored in depth. The perspectives of polyglotic, purist, democratic, and posthistoricial schools of criticism are each identified and discussed in terms of their dominant discourses and pioneering theorists. It is suggested that a cause for a confused identity of an American opera lies in its conceptual disenfranchisement by early theorists.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OPERA; UNITED States music; SYMBOLISM in art; 20TH century aesthetics; ART &; opera; IDEOLOGY; TWENTIETH century; 20TH century music history
- Publication
Opera Quarterly, 2006, Vol 22, Issue 3/4, p398
- ISSN
0736-0053
- Publication type
Article