Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742Condition: NewFormat: HardbackEAN: 9781837651696Item Weight: 1gLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1837651698ISBN: 9781837651696Release Date: 09/24/2024Item Length: 156mmItem Height: 234mmType: MusicSubtitle: The Era of Walpole, Pope, and HandelPublisher: The Boydell PressDescription: Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day.This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets.The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBAuthor: Thomas McGearyGenre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Law & Politics, Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742
Title: The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742
EAN: 9781837651696
Item Weight: 1g
ISBN-10: 1837651698
ISBN: 9781837651696
Release Date: 09/24/2024
Release Year: 2024
Subtitle: The Era of Walpole, Pope, and Handel
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Publication Name: Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742 : the Era of Walpole, Pope, and Handel
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Opera, Europe / Great Britain / General, Modern / 17th Century
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Thomas Mcgeary
Series: Issn Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
