The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession - Tapa blanda

Benzecry, Claudio E.

 
9780226043425: The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession
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ISBN 10: 0226043428 ISBN 13: 9780226043425
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Sinopsis

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 it? Given 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 Colón 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.

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Claudio E. Benzecry is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226043428
ISBN 13 
9780226043425
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
266
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9780226043401: The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

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ISBN 10:  0226043401 ISBN 13:  9780226043401
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2011
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