Opera as Anthropology

Anthropologists in Lyrical Settings

Vlado Kotnik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

2016 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-9757-0 (ISBN)

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This book contemplates the relationship between opera and anthropology. It rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is quite a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still perceived as an unusual approach to opera. Both initial arguments are indicative of the current situation of the relationship between anthropological discipline and opera research. The book introduces the work of anthropologists and ethnographers whose personal and professional affinity for opera has been explicated in their academic and biographical accounts. Anthropological, ethnological, ethnographic, and semiotic accounts of opera by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Leiris, William O. Beeman, Denis Laborde, Paul Atkinson, and Philippe-Joseph Salazar establish that opera can be a pertinent object of anthropological interest, ethnographic investigation, cultural analysis, and historical reflection. By touching on opera not merely as a musical, aesthetic, or artistic category, but as a social, cultural, historical, and transnational phenomenon that, over the last four centuries, has significantly influenced and reflected the identity of Western culture and society, this monograph suggests that opera and anthropology no longer need be alien to one another.

Vlado Kotnik is opera researcher, sociologist, philosopher, specialist of media studies, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Primorska in Koper – Capodistria, Slovenia. His publications include Razprava o spektaklu [Treatise on Spectacle] (co-authored with Neven Kruljac, 2013); Časopisi brez bralcev? [Newspapers Without Readers?] (co-edited with Sandra Bašić Hrvatin, 2013); Mediji in nacionalne manjšine [The Media and National Minorities] (2013); Operno občinstvo v Ljubljani [Opera Audiences in Ljubljana] (2012); Opera, Power and Ideology (2010); Opéra dans l’arène du provincialisme et nationalisme (2006); and Reflections on Opera / Réflexions sur l’opéra (2006).

Erscheinungsdatum	30.06.2017
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4438-9757-4 / 1443897574
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-9757-0 / 9781443897570
Zustand	Neuware