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 ; v.20.

Music of the African Diaspora ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eoan Group.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Opera--South Africa--20th century.

Opera.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Terminology

Introduction

1. We Live to Serve: A Demimonde before Art

2. The La Traviata Affair: From Courtesan to Lover

3. Eoan's Best Opera Success: An Amorous Fantasy

4. Scala Is Scala and Eoan Is Eoan: The Struggle to Breathe

5. Slow Death: On Twilight and Loss

Postscript

Appendix 1: Eoan's Music Productions

Appendix 2: The Eoan Group Constitution

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520971516

0520971515

OCLC:

1033547330