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Understanding global cultures : metaphorical journeys through 28 nations, clusters of nations, and continents /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Understanding cultural metaphors -- The Thai kingdom -- The Japanese garden -- India: the dance of Shiva -- Bedouin jewelry and Saudi Arabia -- The Turkish coffehouse -- The Brazilian samba -- The Polish village church -- Kimchi and Korea -- The German symphony -- The Swedish stuga -- Irish conversations -- The Canadian backpack and flag -- The Danish Christmas luncheon -- French wine -- American football -- The traditional British house -- The Malaysian balik kampung -- The Nigerian marketplace -- The Israeli kibbutzim and moshavim -- The Italian opera -- Belgian lace -- The Mexican fiesta -- The Russian ballet -- The Spanish bullfight -- The Portuguese bullfight -- China's great wall and cross-cultural paradox -- The Chinese Family Altar -- The Singapore hawker centers -- Australian outdoor recreational activities -- The Sub-Saharan bush taxi.…”
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Behind the burnt cork mask : early blackface minstrelsy and Antebellum American popular culture /
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…List of musical examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Revisiting minstrelsy's history: the playbill and contextual evidence -- the playbills -- Blackface parodies of American speech and rhetoric: burlesque lectures and sermons, political orations, comic dialogues, and stories -- Opera for the masses: burlesques of English and Italian opera -- Ethiopian sketches of American life: skits, farces, and afterpieces -- Blackface minstrelsy, masculinity, and social rituals in vocal and choral repertories -- Blackface minstrelsy and misogyny in vocal and choral repertories -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Representative minstrel companies and personnel in playbills and newspaper advertisements, 1843-60 -- Representative concluding numbers from selected minstrel shows, 1843-60 -- Song text frequency in selected Antebellum songsters -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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Masculinity and western musical practice /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Knives and tears: representations of masculinity in late nineteenth-century Italian opera -- Caught in the silken throat: modernist investments in the male vocal fetish -- Hermaphrodism and the masculine body: Tippett's aesthetic views in a gendered context.…”
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Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera /
Published 1998Table of Contents: “…From Venice to Vienna -- Opera in Vienna, 1766-76 : theaters, management, personnel -- Goldonian opera buffa in Vienna before Salieri -- Constructing Le donne letterate -- Youthful exploration and experiment -- Three Goldonian comedies -- Joseph II and the end of the impresarial decade -- Italy, 1778-80 -- Joseph's Singspiel troupe and Der Rauchfangkehrer -- Les Danaïdes -- Joseph's Italian troupe and the renewal of Viennese opera buffa -- Between Paris and Vienna : Tarare and Axur re d'Ormus -- Da Ponte, Ferrarese and Hofkapellmeister Salieri -- Mozart and Salieri -- Leopold II, Tomeoni and the triumph of Neapolitan opera buffa -- Withdrawal and reemergence, 1792-96 -- Salieri's last operas and the end of Viennese Italian opera -- Appendix : A chronological list of Salieri's operas.…”
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Richard Strauss : new perspectives on the composer and his work /
Published 1992Table of Contents: “…Hefling -- Extended tonality in Mahler and Strauss / Kofi Agawu -- Ironic allusions to Italian opera in the musical comedies of Richard Strauss / Reinhold Schlötterer -- Strauss and the National Socialists : the debate and its relevance / Pamela M. …”
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The gilded stage : a social history of opera /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Down the road from Arianna to Zauberflöte (c. 1600-1800). The birth of Italian opera -- The opera business, Italian style -- Opera crosses the Alps and the Channel -- Cultural confluence in Mozart's Vienna -- Revolution and Romanticism, c. 1800-1860. …”
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