Visions of the Village
Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera
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2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760203-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760203-4 (ISBN)
Visions of the Village offers a nuanced account of the cultural history, political salience, and social resonances of Czech village operas, especially those by composers Bed%rich Smetana, Antonín Dvo%rák, and Leoš Janáček. By examining music-critical writings, institutional and government records, letters, and other archival sources, Christopher Campo-Bowen examines how musical representations of the idealized village acquired and provided meaning for Czech audiences, serving as the basis for understandings of a wide range of sociocultural and political issues, including gender, class, nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and race.
This book explores how operas like Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Dvo%rák's The Devil and Kate, and Janáček's Jenůfa served as focal points for the articulation of an essentialist sense of Czech identity. In addition to composers and their operas, Campo-Bowen investigates the output of critics, administrators, and other urban intellectuals like Otakar Hostinský, František Adolf %Subert, and Zdeněk Nejedlý to understand the impact of village operas on public discourse. Through this in-depth analysis, this book uncovers how music functions at the nexus of the desire for politically resonant ethnoracial identities and the representation of ruralness, from the nineteenth century to the present.
This book explores how operas like Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Dvo%rák's The Devil and Kate, and Janáček's Jenůfa served as focal points for the articulation of an essentialist sense of Czech identity. In addition to composers and their operas, Campo-Bowen investigates the output of critics, administrators, and other urban intellectuals like Otakar Hostinský, František Adolf %Subert, and Zdeněk Nejedlý to understand the impact of village operas on public discourse. Through this in-depth analysis, this book uncovers how music functions at the nexus of the desire for politically resonant ethnoracial identities and the representation of ruralness, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Christopher Campo-Bowen is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on the relationships between opera, race/ethnicity, gender, and empire, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building the Operatic Village: Composers, Ethnicity, and Czech Identity
Chapter 2: The Village on Display: Opera and Exhibitions in the 1890s
Chapter 3: Contesting the Village: Morality, Gender, and Village Opera at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 4: The Village as State: Smetana and Opera in the First Czechoslovak Republic
Chapter 5: The Village and Modernity
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Cultural History of Music |
| Zusatzinfo | 23 b/w illustrations and 5 music examples |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 166 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-760203-7 / 0197602037 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-760203-4 / 9780197602034 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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