Black Opera : History, Power, Engagement / Naomi Andre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

André, Naomi Adele, author.

Series:

Illinois scholarship online.

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Black people in opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018.

Summary:

This is a text about thinking, interpreting, and writing about music in performance that incorporates how race, gender, sexuality, and nation help shape the analysis of opera today. Case-study operas are chosen within the diaspora of the United States and South Africa.

Contents:

Engaged Opera

2. Black Opera across the Atlantic: Writing Black Music History and Opera's Unusual Place

3. Haunted Legacies: Interracial Secrets From the Diary of Sally Hemings

4. Contextualizing Race and Gender in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

5. Carmen: From Nineteenth-Century France to Settings in the United States and South Africa in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

6. Winnie, Opera, and South African Artistic Nationhood

Conclusion: Engaged Musicology, Political Action, and Social Justice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252050619

0252050614

OCLC:

1039322947