Periwigs in Prague: The Opera Project We Never Did
The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were
ISBN: 978-1-78714-774-4, eISBN: 978-1-78714-773-7
Publication date: 7 January 2019
Abstract
In this chapter the authors describe an ethnographic project that the authors were never able to undertake. It was concerned with the use of opera (such as those of Mozart) in the construction of cultural heritage in a number of European cities, including Prague and Vienna. The authors would also have undertaken fieldwork to study the local use of music and opera as tourist attractions. The authors would have studied operatic tourism as an example of secular, cultural pilgrimage. It would, therefore, have been a contribution to the sociology of culture, heritage and tourism.
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Acknowledgements
Paul Atkinson’s research with WNO was funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Mrs R. B. Jones and Charlotte Bartlett word processed this chapter.
Citation
Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. (2019), "Periwigs in Prague: The Opera Project We Never Did", Smith, R.J. and Delamont, S. (Ed.) The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were (Studies in Qualitative Methodology, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1042-319220190000017002
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