Local Glories
Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet
To most people, the term opera house conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more interesting-history than that stereotype implies. In Local Glories, Ann Satterthwaite explores the creative, social, and communal roles of the thousands of opera houses that flourished in small towns across the country.By 1900, opera houses were everywhere: on second floors over hardware stores, in grand independent buildings, in the back rooms of New England town…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-939256-8
- EAN: 9780199392568
- Produktnummer: 19765982
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 79'994 KB
- Abbildungen: 87 illus.
Über den Autor
Ann Satterthwaite is a city planner in Washington, DC. She is involved in environmental, cultural, and preservation planning to improve community livability, civic engagement, and sustainability. The author of Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences, she has lectured widely and received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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