Opera Fanatic

图书信息

作者	Benzecry, Claudio E.
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226043432
出版时间	2011-06-15
字数	55.0万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to itGiven its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But while a desire to hobnob with the upper crust might motivate the occasional operagoer, for hardcore fans the real answer, according to The Opera Fanatic, is passion-they do it for love.Opera lovers are an intense lot, Claudio E. Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Coln Opera House in Buenos Aires, a key site for opera's globalization. Listening to the fans and their stories, Benzecry hears of two-hundred-mile trips for performances and nightlong camp-outs for tickets, while others testify to a particular opera's power to move them-whether to song or to tears-no matter how many times they have seen it before. Drawing on his insightful analysis of these acts of love, Benzecry proposes new ways of thinking about people's relationship to art and shows how, far from merely enhancing aspects of everyday life, art allows us to transcend it.

目录

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Background

1. An Opera House for the “Paris of South America”

2. “It was love at first sight”: Biography and Social Trajectory of Standing-Room Dwellers

Part II: Foreground

3. Becoming an Opera Fan: Cultural Membership, Mediation, and Differentiation

4. Moral Listening: Symbolic Boundaries, Work on the Self, and Passionate Engagement

5. Heroes, Pilgrims, Addicts, and Nostalgics: Repertories of Engagement in the Quest for Transcendence

Part III: Finale

6. “They were playing in their shirtsleeves!”: Downfall, Memory Work, and High-Culture Nationalism

7. “We’ve told you all about our life”: Conclusions and Implications

Notes

References

Index