Choruses, ancient and modern

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Choruses, ancient and modern

edited by Joshua Billings, Felix Budelmann, and Fiona Macintosh

Oxford University Press, 2013

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Choruses, Ancient and Modern examines the ancient Greek chorus and its afterlives in western culture. Choruses, though absolutely central to the social, political, and religious life of classical Greece, no longer hold the same broad importance in modernity, yet the attraction of the Greek chorus has proved a strong impetus to reimagining. Artists and thinkers have continually appropriated Greek choruses to their own ends, and the body of these engagements constitutes a rich and hitherto-unexplored area of the reception of classical antiquity. Exploring the choral tradition from archaic Greece to the present across a variety of different media, the volume thematically juxtaposes perspectives on choruses to create a dialogue between ancient and modern contexts. Following a substantial introduction, the four sections of the book discuss the place of the chorus within scholarship, aesthetic and philosophical perspectives on the chorus, reflections on absences of the chorus, and the social and communal potential of the chorus. Each section considers antiquity and modernity in counterpoint, at once de-familiarizing ancient contexts of the chorus and defining crucial moments in modern choral traditions.

Table of Contents

  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE, SPELLING AND TEXTS
  • INTRODUCTION: CHORAL FANTASIES
  • SCHOLARSHIP
  • 1. Theorising the Chorus in Greece
  • 2. The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes
  • 3. The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus
  • 4. Chorus, Song, and Anthropology
  • AESTHETICS
  • 5. Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context
  • 6. Seneca's Chorus of One
  • 7. Something like the Choruses of the Ancients: the Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782
  • 8. An Alien Body? Choral Autonomy around 1800
  • 9. Brechtian Chorality
  • SHADOWS
  • 10. The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus
  • 11. A Senecan Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century French Dramas
  • 12. Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage
  • 13. Sunk in the Mystic Abyss: The Choral Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas
  • 14. How do you solve a problem like the chorus? Hammerstein s Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway
  • COMPANY
  • 15. The Politics of the Mystic Chorus
  • 16. Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus 1789-1917
  • 17. Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet
  • 18. Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany
  • 19. Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions
  • 20. Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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