Wilson, Alexandra - Opera in the Jazz Age

Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and popular culture at a moment when there was a growing imperative to categorize art forms as highbrow, middlebrow, or lowbrow. In this provocative and timely study, Alexandra Wilson considers how the opera debate of the 1920s continues to shape the ways in which we discuss the art form, and draws connections between the battle of the brows and present-day discussions about elitism.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1: Contexts
Chapter 2: Audiences
Chapter 3: Brows
Chapter 4: Boundaries
Chapter 5: Repertories
Chapter 6: Stars
Chapter 7: Identities
Epilogue
Bibliography