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The Great Tradition And Its Legacy, Vol. 4 »

Authors: M Cherlin (Editor), Richard L. Rudolph (Editor), Halina Filipowicz
ISBN-13: 9781571814036, ISBN-10: 1571814035
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: M Cherlin

Book Synopsis

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists.
Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota.
Halina Filipowicz is Professor of Slavic Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Richard L. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota.

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Notes on Contributors
	Dramatic Theater
	Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe	3
Pt. 1	The Enlightenment and the "New Beginning"
1	"By and By We Shall Have an Englightened Populace": Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria	19
2	Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama	33
3	Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater	52
4	Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism	62
5	Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt's Austrian Productions of the 1920s	72
Pt. 2	Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater
6	Elfriede Jelinek's Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists	85
7	George Tabori's Return to the Danube, 1987-1999	97
8	Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal	112
9	Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard's Eve of Retirement	121
	Musical Theater
	Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music	141
Pt. 3	The Emergence of the Classical Style
10	Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century	153
11	The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart	160
12	Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart's Operas	179
Pt. 4	Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
13	Karl Goldmark's Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler	227
14	A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession	237
15	Schoenberg's Music for the Theater	246
	References	259
	Index	271