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Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary Since 1900.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calico, Joy H.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 tilts Opera Studies off its adult-centric axis by focusing on children as characters, creators, performers, and audiences.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Musical Examples
- Tables
- Editors' Biographies
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Interrogating Childhood
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary
- An Introductory Salvo
- Voice: The Common Theme in Interdisciplinary Research
- The Othering of Children and Childhood
- These Operatic Imaginaries
- Child Labor
- The Sensualizing of the Child
- Children and Sexual Abuse
- The Adult Gaze, the Adult Ear
- Race and Ethnicity
- Media and Technology in a Global Pandemic
- A Sketch of Children's Operas since 1900
- Conclusion
- 2 "What We Have Made of Them": The "Signifying Power" and Changing Dramatic Functions of Children in Opera for Adults
- Introduction
- The Semiotic Meanings of the Silent Staged Child
- Hearing Children on Stage
- Casting Children
- Complications of Childhood
- Innocence Lost? Agency Gained?
- 3 Innocence and Empire: Children's Performance on the Lyrical Stages of Manila in the Early Twentieth Century
- Child's Play
- The Child-Body and Childhood as Metaphor
- Charming Manila: The "Antics and Genuineness" of Childhood
- Mascots Are Cute
- Childhood Innocence and the "Dangers" of Asian Culture
- Filipino Lilliputians and the Promise of a "National Theater"
- Remembering Childhood: Listening for the Ethnographic Voice
- 4 Children's Opera in the New Culture Movement: The Grape Fairy 仙子 (1922-23)
- Nation, Language, and City
- The Grape Fairy (1922-23)
- Traditional Music and Singing Style
- Construction of Worldviews and The Big Grape Fairy
- 5 Tracing Brundibár, Dismantling Its Hopescape: Inception, Lehrstück, and Difficult Knowledge
- Prologue
- Inception: A Competition
- Czechoslovak National Identity, Education, and Music
- Brundibár and Lehrstück.
- Hopescape and Difficult Knowledge
- 6 Entertainments, the Miraculous, and a Place of Refuge in Benjamin Britten's Children's Operas
- A World for Children
- Let's Make an Opera! and The Little Sweep
- Noye's Fludde
- The Golden Vanity
- Children's Crusade
- Legacy
- 7 A Fantasy for All Ages: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin, Family Viewing, and Televised Opera in 1950s America
- Don't Say "Children's Opera"
- The Child Prodigy of American Opera
- Screening the American Family
- Doublespeak
- A Fantasy in Three Acts
- All Grown Up: Childhood and Opera on Screen
- 8 "You Can Only Move Forward in New Shoes": Kurt Schwaen, Imagination, and the Future
- "We Seek the Works of the Present"
- "Your New Existence"
- "The Child Inhabits His World Like a Dictator"
- "We've Already Played That Here! We Want Something New!"
- "And the Notes-To Be Precise-Came from Under the Stage"
- "Completely in Reality"
- 9 Operas and Music-Theater Works for Children "To Play and Sing": Peter Maxwell Davies on the Stage
- Equal Voices: Davies's Philosophy and Autobiographical Impulses
- The Hogboon and the Dynamics of Late Style
- Composing Community
- Educational Vision: A Lasting Legacy of School Music-Making
- 10 Children as Bearers of South Africa's Future in Post-Apartheid Opera
- Childhood and Innocence
- Children and Community
- Children and Trauma
- 11 Judith Weir and the Figure of the Orphan
- The Child and the Audience
- Storytelling in Early Weir
- Children Playing Adults: The Black Spider
- The Orphan as Folk Hero: The Consolations of Scholarship
- The Orphan on Stage: A Night at the Chinese Opera
- Child's Play and Familial Duty
- 12 Opera's Silent Children
- Children's Roles in Opera
- The Child as Silent Witness
- The Puppet Child
- Enhanced Silence
- Envoicing Silent Children.
- The Phenomenon of the Silent Child
- 13 Childhood Trauma and the Ethics of Dark Operatic Tourism
- A Call to Care
- p r i s m: Music, Sound, and Childhood Trauma
- A Thousand Acres
- Representing Childhood Trauma in Opera
- Repetition with a Difference
- The Temporality of Remembering Childhood Trauma in Opera
- 14 Bilingual Texts, Transnational Music: Intertextuality and Adaptation in Monkey See, Monkey Do and Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World
- Intertextuality and Adaptation: Two Case Studies
- Monkey See, Monkey Do
- Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World
- 15 Storytelling, Play, and Memory: The Roles of Black Children in Constructing Transatlantic Opera Epistemologies
- Overture: On Two Sides of the Atlantic
- Setting the Scene
- Introducing the Fox: Engaging Audiences Through Intergenerational Connections
- Black Atlantic Opera
- Opera, Education, and Political Action
- Amagwijo and the Compositional Process
- Intergenerational Violence: Inheritance, Performance, and Memory
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780197780428
- OCLC:
- 1586920876
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