This article analyzes several novels and short stories by Jules Verne devoted to opera, audio technologies, and audience practices. This portion of Verne’s output is particularly thought-provoking for the cultural history of recording technologies, technologically-influenced listening practices, audience behavior, and music fandom. As often in Verne, the exploration of art worlds is connected with the exploration of technological inventions, such as recording and broadcast technologies. This article focuses in particular on L’Île à hélice (1895) and Le Château des Carpathes (1892). These novels are linked to their wider cultural, social, and technological contexts as well as to recent theoretical frameworks developed in the field of opera studies, sound studies, media studies, fan studies, the cultural history of technology, and Verne studies. The aim of the article is to shed light on the genesis of the relation between operatic audiences and audio technologies through a survey of Jules Verne’s visionary and imaginative narratives.
La réception du rock progressif anglais dans la culture musicale italienne constitue un phénomène complexe et multiforme. À partir de la fin des années 1960, le rock progressif anglais connaît un large succès en Italie tandis que des groupes italiens tels que Premiata Forneria Marconi parviennent à s’imposer auprès d’un public international. Dans ce contexte, le rôle joué par les artistes associés à la « scène de Canterbury », dont Robert Wyatt et Soft Machine, est significatif et pourtant largement négligé dans la littérature. Après une présentation générale du rock progressif italien du début des années 1970, cet article aborde la réception de la musique « de Canterbury » en Italie et tente d’en saisir l’influence sur les groupes italiens (tels que Perigeo et Picchio dal Pozzo). Une prééminence est donnée ici à Soft Machine en tant que cas d’étude privilégié du fait de la bonne disponibilité des données historiques portant sur sa réception en Italie, mais également pour l’importance de l’association entre ce groupe et ses origines « canterburiennes », et ce en dépit des changements dans sa formation. L’article se conclut sur un aperçu de la politisation du rock progressif italien, notamment dans la deuxième moitié des années 1970, sans perdre de vue ses rapports avec l’univers de Canterbury.
A cominciare dalla fine del ventesimo secolo, l’emergenza del Web, delle tecnologie digitali e dello streaming ha profondamente influenzato il mondo musicale. In questo articolo, mi concentro sull’impatto di questo processo trasformativo sulla diffusione e sulla ricezione della musica d’opera. Alcune novità della cultura operistica contemporanea includono il servizio Met Live in HD e Met Opera on Demand a New York, il sistema Friday Rush della Royal Opera House di Londra, la Troisième Scène dell’Opéra de Paris, e la rinnovata popolarità mediatica della serata inaugurale del Teatro alla Scala. Si tratterà anche, in una prospettiva storica di più lunga durata, di tracciare le origini culturali del rapporto fra opera e Web e di esplorare il nesso che, fin dall’Ottocento, lega divismo, melomania, nuovi media e tecnologia di registrazione. Lo studio dell’immaginario letterario e fantascientifico è particolarmente proficuo. Per esempio, nel suo romanzo gotico Le Château des Carpathes (1892), Jules Verne descrive la melomania del barone Rodolphe de Gortz: in un lugubre castello della Transilvania, il barone riporta in vita sotto forma di ologramma la diva italiana La Stilla attraverso proiezioni visive e registrazioni fonografiche.
Michael Bull is a Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, in England. His research focuses on the relationship between new mobile technologies and auditory culture in everyday life, at the crossroads of urban studies, media studies and sound studies. In this interview, he talks about his background in sociology and philosophy, his research on personal stereos, his theoretical references (from Simmel to Adorno), and his views on the future developments of studies on sound culture, senses, and society.
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