{"product_id":"the-operetta-empire-music-theater-in-early-twentieth-century-vienna-9780520401228","title":"The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHOICE \u003c\/i\u003eOutstanding Academic Title, 2022\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"When the world comes to an end,\" Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, \"all the big city orchestras will still be playing \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Widow\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Widow\u003c\/i\u003e were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. \u003ci\u003eThe Operetta Empire\u003c\/i\u003e delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth-century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life--one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMicaela Baranello\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Arkansas. Her publications include articles in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Musicological Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510081949970,"sku":"9780520401228","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdba3fe4-6b60-4224-ad68-1653f8744803.jpg?v=1730916371","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-operetta-empire-music-theater-in-early-twentieth-century-vienna-9780520401228","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}