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Author : Jacques Offenbach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Poachers (les Braconniers) written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Offenbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The Poachers written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Traubner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135887829
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Operetta written by Richard Traubner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Operetta: A Theatrical History" is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon. Beginning in mid-19th century Europe, the book covers all of the key developments in the form, including the landmark works by Strauss and his followers, Gilbert & Sullivan, Franz Lehar, Rudolf Friml, Victor Herbert, and many more. The book perfectly captures the champagne-and-ballroom atmosphere of the greatest works in the genre. It will appeal to all fans of musical theatre history.
Author : Katherine K. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190690119
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Opera for the People written by Katherine K. Preston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
Author : Jean-Robert Cadet
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292783477
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Restavec written by Jean-Robert Cadet and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring memoir recounts a man’s harrowing journey from unpaid child labor in Haiti to a successful life in the United States. African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society—the children of the poor—by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children were—and still are—restavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of "staying with" disguises the unremitting labor, abuse, and denial of education that characterizes the children's lives. In this memoir, Jean-Robert Cadet recounts the harrowing story of his youth as a restavec, as well as his inspiring climb to middle-class American life. He vividly describes what it was like to be an unwanted illegitimate child "staying with" a well-to-do family whose physical and emotional abuse was sanctioned by Haitian society. He also details his subsequent life in the United States, where, despite American racism, he put himself through college and found success in the Army, in business, and finally in teaching.
Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443884251
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Operetta written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a separate genre, an art form with its own special flavour and concerns, and no longer simply a "little opera". Attempts to emulate Offenbach's success in France and abroad generated other national schools of operetta and helped to establish the genre internationally, in Spain, in England, and especially in Austria Hungary. Here it inspired works by Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss II (the Golden Age), and later Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán (the Silver Age). Viennese operetta flourished conterminously with the Habsburg Empire and the mystique of Vienna, but, after the First World War, an artistically vibrant Berlin assumed this leading position (with Paul Lincke, Leon Jessel and Edouard Künnecke). As popular musical tastes diverged more and more during the interwar years, with the advent of new influences—like those of cabaret, the revue, jazz, modern dance music and the cinema, as well as changing social mores—the operetta genre took on new guises. This was especially manifested in the musical comedy of London's West End and New York's Broadway, with their imitators generating a success that opened a new golden age for the reinvented genre, especially after the Second World War. This source book presents an overview of the operetta genre in all its forms. The first volume provides an introduction, a representative chronology of the genre from 1840 to 2013, and a survey of the national schools of France and Austria-Hungary. The principal composers are considered in chronological sequence, with biographical material and a list of stage works, selected synopses and some commentary.
Author : Reg Carr
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719006685
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Anarchism in France written by Reg Carr and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Pierre Warnier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422708
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Pot-King written by Jean-Pierre Warnier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent politician on the national stage. He partakes in the “return of the kings” in the forefront of an African public space. This book analyses the principles of the sacred kingship which lie at the core of the king’s different roles. While showing that the king’s body acts as a container of bodily substances transformed into unifying ancestral life-essence by appropriate means, and bestowed upon its subjects, it develops an innovative approach to bodily and material cultures as an essential component of the technologies of power. In so doing, it departs significantly from previous approaches to sacred kingship.
Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628726253
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Jean Renoir written by Ronald Bergan and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, the definitive biography of a seminal figure in film history, whom Orson Welles called “the greatest of all directors.” Jean Renoir’s career almost spans the history years of cinema–from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir, Hollywood studio productions, the Technicolor-period comedies and fast television techniques. His film The Grand Illusion remains one of the greatest movies about the effects of war. Decades after its release, Renoir’s The Rules of the Game (1939) is the only film to have been included on every top ten list in the Sight & Sound's respected decennial poll since 1952, cementing Renoir’s influence. André Bazin and François Truffaut praised Renoir as the patron saint of the French New Wave. Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise gives detailed accounts of Renoir’s working methods and captivating appraisals of his films, and his long and fascinating life from his blissful childhood as the son of the great Impressionist painter August Renoir. This is a must-read for students of film and all fans of entertaining, timeless movies.
Author : G. Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gallery of British Artists written by G. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frédéric Julien
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book First Lessons in Conversational French Grammar ... written by Frédéric Julien and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Linguist written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 890 pages
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Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : William Jesse
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465547134
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Le Morvan [A District of France] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches written by William Jesse and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520912918
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Cine Goes to Town written by Richard Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Abel's magisterial new book radically rewrites the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathé-Frères, the first major corporation in the new industry, led the world in film production and distribution. Based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents, and drawing on recent social and cultural histories of turn-of-the-century France and the United States, his book provides new insights into the earliest history of the cinema. Abel tells how early French film entertainment changed from a cinema of attractions to the narrative format that Hollywood would so successfully exploit. He describes the popular genres of the era—comic chases, trick films and féeries, historical and biblical stories, family melodramas and grand guignol tales, crime and detective films—and shows the shift from short subjects to feature-length films. Cinema venues evolved along with the films as live music, color effects, and other new exhibiting techniques and practices drew larger and larger audiences. Abel explores the ways these early films mapped significant differences in French social life, helping to produce thoroughly bourgeois citizens for Third Republic France. The Ciné Goes to Town recovers early French cinema's unique contribution to the development of the mass culture industry. As the one-hundredth anniversary of cinema approaches, this compelling demonstration of film's role in the formation of social and national identity will attract a wide audience of film scholars, social and cultural historians, and film enthusiasts.
Author : John Bidgood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Longmans' Illustrated First French Reading-book and Grammar written by John Bidgood and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemary A. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838489
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Criminal Papers written by Rosemary A. Peters and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, shady characters appear in French writings from one end of the literary spectrum to another. While Paris gleams through the night, the City of Lights has a darker underside with its own infrastructure, its own rules and traditions – and its own literature. In the shadows of the capital, thieves, murderers, addicts, shoplifters, seducers, and smugglers carry out their nefarious acts, pursued by detectives (both police and private) who seek to apprehend and analyze them. These novels pave the way for a new genre, the detective novel or roman polar, which gains ever-increasing popularity as the nineteenth century moves toward its close and the twentieth dawns with developments in literature and other genres. These stories are experimental by nature, and lend themselves to further innovations, both apertures (to borrow Barthes’s term) and departures. In addition, the detective stories of the nineteenth century contribute to the creation of a new art in the twentieth century: they are part and parcel of the work of film, especially film noir. This volume considers literature of the criminal underworld and its encounters with society, in the city and the popular imagination. The twelve essays compiled here examine the intersections between law and literature in the nineteenth century, from the newly adjusted property laws after the Revolution of 1789 through the scientific discourse around kleptomania in the fin-de-siècle. The authors question how texts, both canonical and “paraliterary,” are inscribed into the social, political, economic and artistic dialogues of the period. Other questions come up in these textual examinations: how are real-life criminals and the spaces they inhabit translated into literary ones? How do crimes in novels reflect or produce social tensions and preoccupations around issues of gender, education, class, and ideology? And, perhaps most importantly, what does it mean to be the “author of a crime”?
