TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGeary,Thomas
TI  - The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742: The Era of Walpole, Pope, and Handel
T2  - Music in Britain, 1600-2000 Series
SN  - 9781805433941
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Woodbridge
PB  - Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
KW  - Opera-18th century
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Front cover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction: Opera and Cultural Politics -- Chapter 1 Rise of Walpole and the Whig Oligarchy -- Chapter 2 The Royal Academy of Music and Its Audience -- Chapter 3 Bolingbroke and the Political Opposition -- Chapter 4 Opera and the Luxury Debate -- Chapter 5 Excise and the Patriot Opposition -- Chapter 6 Opera of the Nobility and the Furor Farinellicus -- Chapter 7 From Excise to the War of Jenkins' Ear -- Chapter 8 A Patriot Vision for Dramatic Music -- Chapter 9 Opera and the Politics of Taste -- Chapter 10 Opera in Formal Verse Satire -- Chapter 11 War of Jenkins' Ear and the Fall of Walpole -- Chapter 12 The New Dunciad: Opera and the Triumph of Dulness -- Coda: The Cultural Work of Opera -- Bibliography -- Index -- Previous volumes
N2  - Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day
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