Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography

by Paul Atkinson

Overview

Paul Atkinson explores the remarkable world of opera through his fieldwork with the internationally known Welsh National Opera company. He demonstrates how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted by taking us on stage and behind the scenes into the collective social action that goes into the realization of an opera. Atkinson's work will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists who study the performance arts, as well as to those engaged in theatre arts, opera, and music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759101395
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/27/2006
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Paul Atkinson is a social anthropologist and Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Wales as well as associate director of the ESRC Research Centre on Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics. He is co-editor of the journal Qualitative Research, and co-author of Key Themes in Qualitative Research, with Amanda Coffey and Sarah Delamont.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Introducing Performances
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Performing Opera in Theory and Practice
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Performance and the Practical Management of Dramaturgy
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Performing Characters and Meanings
Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Performing 'The Queen of Spades'
Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Performing the Company
Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Performing Lives and Voices
Chapter 9 Chapter 8: Performing Mundane Ecstasy
Chapter 10 Appendix: The Operas
Chapter 11 References