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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. The birth of a genre
- 2. Creators and performers of Viennese operetta
- 3. 'Austria personified': Strauss and the search for Viennese identity
- 4. From ballroom to theater: musical style and Indigo und die vierzig Rauber
- 5. Die Fledermaus and the illusion of Carnival in Vienna
- 6. Austro-Hungarian relations and Der Zigeunerbaron
- 7. Waltzing Brunnhilde: Zukunftsmusik and Viennese operetta
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Synopses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.