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Czechoslovakia and Village Opera through 1989 Czechoslovakia and Village Opera through 1989
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The Devil and Kate in the Aftermath of the Velvet Revolution The Devil and Kate in the Aftermath of the Velvet Revolution
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Roma, The Bartered Bride, and Ethnoracial Essentialism in the 1990s Roma, The Bartered Bride, and Ethnoracial Essentialism in the 1990s
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Repudiating the Rural? Janáček’s Jenůfa in the New Millennium Repudiating the Rural? Janáček’s Jenůfa in the New Millennium
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Miloš Zeman, Right-Wing Populism, and Music Miloš Zeman, Right-Wing Populism, and Music
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The Bartered Bride under the Open Sky The Bartered Bride under the Open Sky
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5 The Village and Modernity: Ruralness and Opera in Post–Velvet Revolution Czechia
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Published:February 2025
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Abstract
Chapter 5 takes up the themes of idealized ruralness and the village mode as they relate to politics, citizenship, and opera in post-1989 Czechia, and shows just how enduring the logics of the nineteenth century could be even after (or perhaps because of) the period of communist rule. It demonstrates how the political weight of nationalism, so much a part of the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century reception of village operas, has seemingly faded into the background. Nevertheless, such ideologies remain a part of the operas’ history, and the more quotidian nationalism of the present belies the ethnoracial roots of such sentiments in the echoes of the village mode. In examining recent productions of The Devil and Kate, The Bartered Bride, and Jenůfa, I show how hierarchies of difference based on ethnicity, race, religion, and various overlaps thereof are still very much a part of the reception not only of such operas but also of civic life in Czechia more generally. In this regard, the situation of Czech village opera mirrors the disposition of various European Union countries, if not the United States, toward citizenship and belonging: While nominally predicated on democratic institutions and equality before the law, ethnocentrism, racism, and religious differences remain powerful ways of enforcing social divisions and privileging certain identities.
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