Opera and the Culture of Fascism

by Jeremy Tambling

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198165668
• ISBN13: 9780198165668
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"