Opera and modern culture : Wagner and Strauss /

• Main Author: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2007.
• Subjects: Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Strauss, Richard, > 1864-1949 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική.; Όπερα > Κοινωνικές απόψεις.; Σεξ στην όπερα.; Μουσική > Φιλοσοφία και αισθητική

Table of 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-siècle fantasies : Elektra and the culture of supremacism
• Epilogue : voice and its beyonds.