The La Traviata affair : opera in the age of apartheid / Hilde Roos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roos, Hilde, author.

Series:

Music of the African diaspora ; 20.

Music of the African diaspora ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eoan Group.

Opera--South Africa--20th century.

Opera.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a "coloured" cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan's opera activities from the group's inception in 1933 until the cessation of their productions by 1980. It explores larger questions of complicity, compromise, and compliance; of assimilation, appropriation, and race; and of "European art music" in situations of "non-European" dispossession and disenfranchisement. Performing under the auspices of apartheid, the group's unquestioned acceptance of and commitment to the art of opera could not redeem it from the entanglements that came with the political compromises it made. Uncovering a rich trove of primary source materials, Hilde Roos presents here for the first time the story of one of the premier cultural agencies of apartheid South Africa"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

We live to serve: a demi-monde before art

The La Traviata affair: from courtesan to lover

Eoan's best opera success: an amorous fantasy

Scala is Scala and Eoan is Eoan: the struggle to breathe

Slow death: on twilight and loss

Appendix 1 : Eoan's music productions

Appendix 2 : the Eoan group consitution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Roos, Hilde. Traviata affair.

ISBN:

9780520299887

0520299884

9780520299894

0520299892

OCLC:

1029632336