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English
Pages
459

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American opera
2001, University of Illinois Press
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Urbana

Table of Contents

Introduction : Opera
lyric barometer of American life
Part 1 : The voyage, 1730 to 1915
The British connection
The earliest American operas
National themes and the American image
Mime, melodrama, and song
Grand opera
the American way
In the spirit of comedy
Part 2 : The signposts, 1880 to 1960
Wagnerism and the American muse
Native Americans through symbolism and song
American opera at the Met : the Gatti-Casazza story
From the black perspective
Innovators and iconoclasts : or, is it opera?
The impact of mass media
Part 3 : The discoveries, 1945 to the turn of the century
The new American verismo
New York City Opera's "American plan"
Dreamers of decadence
Bold turns on familiar paths
Heroes for our time
Toward the new millennium and beyond
Epilogue : American opera at the crossroads
Appendix : Milestones in American opera.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Music in American life

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
782.1/0973
Library of Congress
ML1711 .K56 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 459 p. :
Number of pages
459

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24949683M
Internet Archive
americanopera00kirk
ISBN 10
0252026233
ISBN 13
9780252026232
LCCN
00009959
OCLC/WorldCat
44414175

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