"This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially...
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"This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other genres without fundamentally changing in tone or approach. The chapters move from nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century North America, South America and Europe to present-day Australia. Some offer fresh understandings of familiar composers, such as Johann Strauss or Gilbert and Sullivan, while others examine works or composers that are less well-known. The chapter on Socialist operetta in Czechoslovakia in particular will almost certainly be a revelation to anyone from Western Europe or the US, where operetta is often understood to be a bourgeois phenomenon. As a summary of the current state of the field, this collection showcases the many possible pathways for future scholars who wish to explore it"
Publisher:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London
"This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially...
more
"This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other genres without fundamentally changing in tone or approach. The chapters move from nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century North America, South America and Europe to present-day Australia. Some offer fresh understandings of familiar composers, such as Johann Strauss or Gilbert and Sullivan, while others examine works or composers that are less well-known. The chapter on Socialist operetta in Czechoslovakia in particular will almost certainly be a revelation to anyone from Western Europe or the US, where operetta is often understood to be a bourgeois phenomenon. As a summary of the current state of the field, this collection showcases the many possible pathways for future scholars who wish to explore it"--
Introduction / Bruno Bower, Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, Sonja Starkmeth -- International Travel. "The operetta season considerably decreased our losses" : Art and business from Italian/South American ledgers of the 1900s / Matteo Paoletti ; The Widow and the Waltz : 'Viennese' Operetta in New York, 1907-1930 / John Graziano ; Transnational influences in the early period of the Budapest Operetta Theatre (1922-1926) / Gyöngyi Heltai -- Politics and National Identity. Dunayevsky, Czech Edition : On Soviet Operetta in Czechoslovakia, Its Cultural Significance, and Its Artistic Character / Vojtěch Frank ; Changing Perspectives : Poland and the Poles in German Operetta / Ryszard Daniel Golianek ; Hungary and Hungarianism : Old and New on the Operetta Stage / Lynn M. Hooker -- Class and Gender. 'Come and Buy! Buy! Buy!' - Places of Commerce in Late Victorian Popular Musical Theatre (1890 - 1900) / Sonja Starkmeth ; A Star is Born : The Travesti Protagonist from Chabrier to Hahn / Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg ; Der Zarewitsch (1927) : Gender Ambiguity and the Repression of Sexual Identity / John Rigby -- Genre Over Time. Burlesque Quotation Practices in Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas and the Creation of Middle-Class Identity / Bruno Bower ; Moving things around : The Australian Ballet's adaptation of The Merry Widow (1975) / David Larkin and Chantal Nguyen ; 'Treu sein, das liegt mir nicht' : Sexual Predation and Textual Correction / Pierre Degott ; Broadway Royalty : Jerome Kern's Princess Theatre Shows as the Heirs of Operetta / Stephanie Ruozzo
