Opera, Power and Ideology

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Anthropological
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Product details

  • ISBN 9783631596289
  • Weight: 450g
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Mar 2010
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Publication City/Country: CH
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Opera is able to offer enchanting performance sites, in which people create and experience glamorous or ecstatic imagined worlds, but behind this picture we find a real social organization embraced by reality, which makes opera’s world and its history accessible for ethnographic enquiry, historical reflection and cultural analysis. This book therefore presents the author’s original anthropological study, which shows complex historical, socio-cultural, political, economic, ideological, academic and ethnographic facets of opera culture in Slovenia, including the field sites of both Slovenian national opera houses, in Ljubljana and Maribor. The study explicates how social representations of opera are produced and enacted by different social agents involved within the Slovenian national operatic habitus, and how opera is used as an idealized vision of nationhood and national identity in a provincial society.
The Author: Vlado Kotnik is assistant professor of anthropology and media studies at the University of Primorska in Koper (Slovenia), director of the Institute for Anthropological Research in Ljubljana, and member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

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