| Description |
257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : thinking through opera with Wagner and Strauss -- Opera : two or three things I know about her -- Contesting Wagner : the Lohengrin prelude and anti-anti-semitism -- The waters of Prometheus : nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring -- Enchantment and modernity : Wagner the symptom -- Modernity's cutting edge : the Salome complex -- Video as Jugendstil : Salome, visuality, and performance -- Fin-de-siècle fantasies : Elektra and the culture of supremacism -- Epilogue : voice and its beyonds. |
| Subject |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas.
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Operas.
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Opera -- Social aspects.
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Sex in opera.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| ISBN |
0520241738 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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