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Blackness in opera / edited by Naomi Andre, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people in opera.
- Opera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Blackness in Opera' critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera.
- Contents:
- Introduction: representing blackness on the operatic stage
- From Otello to Porgy: blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera / Naomi André
- Hearing the other in The masque of blackness / Sarah Schmalenberger
- Nationalism, racial difference, and "Egyptian" meaning in Verdi's Aida / Christopher R. Gauthier and Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
- Race, "realism," and fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga / Eric Saylor
- Political currents and black culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha / Ann Sears
- Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! in the world of the Harlem Renaissance / Karen M. Bryan
- New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison
- Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown
- Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf
- The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd
- Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. Wipplinger
- Il rodolfo nero, or the masque of blackness / George Shirley.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-90169-2
- 0-252-09389-5
- OCLC:
- 822890086
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