Composers and Audiences between High and Popular Culture: Towards a Theory and History of Social Reception of Opera
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https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.48.1.129-164Keywords:
opera, audience, high culture, popular culture, people’s cultureAbstract
The article is based on a pondered outline of examples of the social reception of opera. Four models of the social reception of opera are exemplified: 1) Mozart, hybridism and divergent culture; 2) Wagner, avantgardism and high culture; 3) Meyerbeer, commercialism and popular culture; 4) Verdi, belcantism and people’s culture.Metrics
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1. 06. 2012
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Copyright (c) 2012 Vlado Kotnik

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Kotnik, V. (2012). Composers and Audiences between High and Popular Culture: Towards a Theory and History of Social Reception of Opera. Musicological Annual, 48(1), 129-164. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.48.1.129-164