Music, the market, and the marvellous

Titel: Music, the market, and the marvellous : Parisian féerie, 1864-1900 / Tommaso Sabbatini
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 251 Seiten) : Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Tabellen
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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A British Academy monograph
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Music, the market, and the marvellous
ISBN: 9780198930938 ; 9780198930945 ; 9780198930921 ; 9780197267738
Bemerkung: Literaturangaben in den Fußnoten
Zusammenfassung: "Music, the market, and the marvellous" examines "féerie", the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective. Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, "féerie" was still thriving during the fin de siècle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly "féerie" and scientific "féerie". The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market. Recovering this forgotten - but once hugely influential - repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century "popular" theatre.