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The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession
Claudio E. Benzecry
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| #1301881 in eBooks | 2011-06-15 | 2011-06-15 | File type: PDF||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Ethnography of Fandom|By Dunamis|The point of Benzecry's book is not to simply talk about opera fanatics or give examples of them. Instead, Benzecry explains opera fandom. His astute ethnography, which emerges from years of field work in the Colon Opera House, explains to the reader how and why opera, slated as a 'dying' art, has continued to generate a fan base.||
Winner of the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, given by ASA, 2012.
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world’s stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But while a desire to hobnob with the upper crust might motivate the occasional operagoer, for hardcore fans the real answer, according to The Opera Fanatic, is passion—they do it for love.
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