The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 568
... plays . One of the first theatres to experiment with this new technology was the Paris Opéra in 1849.6 Electricity arrived in American theatres in 1879 , when it was used at the California in San Francisco . The first English theatre ...
... plays . One of the first theatres to experiment with this new technology was the Paris Opéra in 1849.6 Electricity arrived in American theatres in 1879 , when it was used at the California in San Francisco . The first English theatre ...
Page 584
... plays were performed in it in many foreign cities , including London ( in Tottenham Court Road ) , New Orleans , Rio de Janeiro and Odessa . " In Naples , between 1830 and 1860 nearly a third of all plays per- formed were Scribe's ...
... plays were performed in it in many foreign cities , including London ( in Tottenham Court Road ) , New Orleans , Rio de Janeiro and Odessa . " In Naples , between 1830 and 1860 nearly a third of all plays per- formed were Scribe's ...
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... played a minor role in the popular theatre movement . Of course the classic plays favoured by the intellectuals , such as Pushkin's Boris Godunov ( 1825 ) , Gogol's The Inspector General ( 1835 ) , Alex- ander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit ...
... played a minor role in the popular theatre movement . Of course the classic plays favoured by the intellectuals , such as Pushkin's Boris Godunov ( 1825 ) , Gogol's The Inspector General ( 1835 ) , Alex- ander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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