Phantasmagoria - 9781138353558

Taylor & Francis

PhantasmagoriaSociology of Opera\nAuthor(s): David T Evans\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138353558, 978-1138353558\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1999, this original and entertaining sociological study takes a comprehensive and critical view of opera as unique cultural artefact as loss making industry, as institution with a museum culture, and as consumed commodity of rare distinction and elaborate ritual.\n\nSpecific chapters deal with opera within the contexts of musicological analysis, auratic art and fetishized taste: opera as business and as museum: singers opera: producers opera and audiences opera. There is also a chapter on opera: popular, commercialised fragments of opera outside the opera house, consumed by and through all manner of reproduced means: CD, video, Three Tenors concerts: film and TV soundtracks: advertising jingles etc.\n\nDespite the supposed popularisation and successful commercial expl.