Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain

by Alexandra Wilson

Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and exhilarating. But where did opera fit into this fashionable new entertainment world? Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and popular culture at a key historical moment when there was a growing imperative to categorize art forms as "highbrow," "middlebrow," or "lowbrow." Literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190912669
• ISBN13: 9780190912666
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"