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The Prague National Theater in the Context of the Habsburg Empire The Prague National Theater in the Context of the Habsburg Empire
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Pro and Contra Vienna: Czech Anticipation of the National Theater Residency Pro and Contra Vienna: Czech Anticipation of the National Theater Residency
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Viennese Reactions to the Czech Performances Viennese Reactions to the Czech Performances
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The Czechs Come into Fashion The Czechs Come into Fashion
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Music, Empire, and Identity at the Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Exhibition Music, Empire, and Identity at the Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Exhibition
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The 1892 South African Exhibition of Emil Holub The 1892 South African Exhibition of Emil Holub
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2 The Village on Display: Opera and Exhibitions in the 1890s
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Published:February 2025
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Chapter 2 deals first and foremost with the 1892 International Exhibition of Music and Theater in Vienna, when The Bartered Bride scored a major international success and quickly began its dissemination to a wider European public. In order to highlight the extent to which this opera and exhibitions generally were important to the construction of a Czech ethnoracial identity, the chapter also discusses two other exhibitions: the 1895 Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Exhibition and Emil Holub’s 1892 South African Exhibition. Both of these exhibitions dealt much more explicitly with the production and reification of ethnoracial identity, but both also used music as an adjunct, if not a primary method, for the work of knowledge production. This chapter shows most clearly the ways in which the Habsburg imperial context was also crucial for the construction and initial coherence of Czech identity and its operatic symbols through the village mode—it was only by negotiating the structures and strictures of empire that what it was to be Czech could ultimately cohere.
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