Elsie Houston : revolutionary soprano / Adjoa Osei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osei, Adjoa, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Houston, Elsie, 1902-1943.

Houston, Elsie.

Sopranos (Singers)--Brazil--Biography.

Sopranos (Singers).

Music and race--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Music and race.

Music and race--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, black and mixed-race women from across the globe came together in Paris and New York to engage in an artistic, sexual, intellectual, and political revolution -the ultimate flapper girls, they moulded and shaped Western avant-garde thought and nascent ideas about race, sexuality, and left-wing politics, as well as the rapidly changing, increasingly visible role of women in modern life. This biography uncovers the story of one extraordinary figure known as Elsie Houston, who was a Brazilian, mixed-race, classically trained soprano. Following her artistic and social networks from Brazil to Paris and then on to New York, author Adjoa Osei opens the door to an unexpected history of race, sexuality, and society during the twentieth century.

Contents:

Introduction

Black Brazil in Paris

Running with the Surrealists

A Passport to Brazil

Baiana baiana baiana!

Voodoo in Harlem

The Primitive Quality of the Modern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 28, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197693209

0197693202

9780197693186

0197693180

OCLC:

1446496122