Christopher Campo-Bowen is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on the relationships between opera, race/ethnicity, gender, and empire, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Building the Operatic Village: Composers, Ethnicity, and Czech Identity Chapter 2: The Village on Display: Opera and Exhibitions in the 1890s Chapter 3: Contesting the Village: Morality, Gender, and Village Opera at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Chapter 4: The Village as State: Smetana and Opera in the First Czechoslovak Republic Chapter 5: The Village and Modernity

I wholeheartedly recommend this volume to anyone interested in Czech music and nation-building.

Christopher Campo-Bowen is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on the relationships between opera, race/ethnicity, gender, and empire, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Building the Operatic Village: Composers, Ethnicity, and Czech Identity Chapter 2: The Village on Display: Opera and Exhibitions in the 1890s Chapter 3: Contesting the Village: Morality, Gender, and Village Opera at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Chapter 4: The Village as State: Smetana and Opera in the First Czechoslovak Republic Chapter 5: The Village and Modernity

I wholeheartedly recommend this volume to anyone interested in Czech music and nation-building.

Christopher Campo-Bowen is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on the relationships between opera, race/ethnicity, gender, and empire, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Building the Operatic Village: Composers, Ethnicity, and Czech Identity Chapter 2: The Village on Display: Opera and Exhibitions in the 1890s Chapter 3: Contesting the Village: Morality, Gender, and Village Opera at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Chapter 4: The Village as State: Smetana and Opera in the First Czechoslovak Republic Chapter 5: The Village and Modernity

I wholeheartedly recommend this volume to anyone interested in Czech music and nation-building.