Opera and the Culture of Fascism

Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of
high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials.


Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 11/07/1996
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780198165668

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