TY  - GEN
T1  - Black opera : history, power, engagement
A1  - André, Naomi Adele
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1039322947
AB  - From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. The author draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with listeners in the twenty-first century. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, the author reveals how Black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent - or even liberate.--description from publisher's website.
OP  - 272
CN  - ML1700
SN  - 9780252050619
SN  - 0252050614
SN  - 9780252041921
SN  - 9780252083570
SN  - 0252083571
SN  - 0252041925
KW  - Black people in opera.
KW  - Opera.
KW  - Personnes noires à l'opéra.
KW  - MUSIC : Instruction & Study : Voice.
KW  - MUSIC : Lyrics.
KW  - MUSIC : Printed Music : Vocal.
KW  - MUSIC : General.
KW  - Black people in opera
KW  - Opera
ER  -