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American Opera (Music in American Life),Used
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Tired of Tannhuser? Bored with Bohme? Open your imagination to boundless creativity and wideranging repertory of American opera. Elise K. Kirk provides a treasure trove of information that fills in the longneglected history of opera in the United States. Looking at more than 100 works, Kirk sketches the musical traits, provides plot summaries, describes sets and stagings, and offers indepth profiles of performers, composers, and librettists.Beginning with the Englishinfluenced harlequinade of the revolutionary period, Kirk follows the development of comic opera, the rise of melodramatic romanticism, the emergence of American grand opera and verismo, and the explosion of eclectic forms that characterized American opera in the twentieth century. Devoting particular attention to women and African American composers and librettists, Kirk explores how American operas incorporated indigenous elements such as jazz, popular song, folk music, Native American motifs, and Hollywood's cinematic techniques. She also discusses radio and television's impact, the advent of opera workshops in universities, the integration of multimedia effects into productions, and the ways innovations such as cocommissioning and joint staging have helped sustain the genre in the face of declining federal support.
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