Laureta Stevenson
Dr. Kyong Yoon
CULT 101-001
Oct. 17th, 2016
Reinvention through Urbanization
Nothing exists in a vacuum. You can’t invent something out of nothing, as can be applied to historical events. In two different articles, Inventing Opera as art in nineteenth-century Manchester and The Invention of the English Christmas, both written by John Storey, he explains a re-invention of a societal event (rather than the titles word of an invention). Both of the two subjects Storey is analyzing are social events in which the majority of the re-invention happened in the 19th century. The 19th century was when the industrial revolution was well in its prime and many changes, socially and economically were taking place. This revolution was partially …show more content…
As for the way Christmas was changing, emphasis was being placed on the consumeristic ways of celebrating the season. As for opera, class division fueled a separation of opera and the general public. At first glance these two articles may not seem to be linked on many levels, but they both harbor a series of events in which the social significance changed as an expansion of class division was taking place. With a desire for a utopian world by people in society where there was an expanding gap between class, the industrial revolution was altering Christmas and Opera in ways that are still prevalent to this day.
The Industrial revolution was well underway in 1800, the public was losing touch with their humanistic beliefs for a more urbanized lifestyle. Both events in history show societies desire for a utopian society. For Christmas, it’s a simple phenomenon to see. The idea of Christmas, as Storey puts it, is a search for a nostalgic past that never happened. * Ideas of …show more content…
As the grey space in between classes was expanding, this fueled creating opera as art and turning Christmas into a “celebration of industrialism and urbanization”. It only makes sense that people were looking for a utopia more and more as urbanization was overtaking society. The result of each reinvention continued to the present day and is even more so present. Christmas is even more so emphasized on materialism than ever before, as for opera, I never hear about it on popular media, and still has its own
Dr. Kyong Yoon
CULT 101-001
Oct. 17th, 2016
Reinvention through Urbanization
Nothing exists in a vacuum. You can’t invent something out of nothing, as can be applied to historical events. In two different articles, Inventing Opera as art in nineteenth-century Manchester and The Invention of the English Christmas, both written by John Storey, he explains a re-invention of a societal event (rather than the titles word of an invention). Both of the two subjects Storey is analyzing are social events in which the majority of the re-invention happened in the 19th century. The 19th century was when the industrial revolution was well in its prime and many changes, socially and economically were taking place. This revolution was partially …show more content…
As for the way Christmas was changing, emphasis was being placed on the consumeristic ways of celebrating the season. As for opera, class division fueled a separation of opera and the general public. At first glance these two articles may not seem to be linked on many levels, but they both harbor a series of events in which the social significance changed as an expansion of class division was taking place. With a desire for a utopian world by people in society where there was an expanding gap between class, the industrial revolution was altering Christmas and Opera in ways that are still prevalent to this day.
The Industrial revolution was well underway in 1800, the public was losing touch with their humanistic beliefs for a more urbanized lifestyle. Both events in history show societies desire for a utopian society. For Christmas, it’s a simple phenomenon to see. The idea of Christmas, as Storey puts it, is a search for a nostalgic past that never happened. * Ideas of …show more content…
As the grey space in between classes was expanding, this fueled creating opera as art and turning Christmas into a “celebration of industrialism and urbanization”. It only makes sense that people were looking for a utopia more and more as urbanization was overtaking society. The result of each reinvention continued to the present day and is even more so present. Christmas is even more so emphasized on materialism than ever before, as for opera, I never hear about it on popular media, and still has its own