Black opera : history, power, engagement /

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 ex...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: André, Naomi Adele (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1595798
جدول المحتويات:
  • Engaged opera
  • Black opera across the Atlantic : writing Black music history and opera's unusual place
  • Haunted legacies : interracial secrets from the diary of Sally Hemings
  • Contextualizing race and gender in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
  • Carmen : from nineteenth-century France to settings in the United States and South Africa in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • Winnie, opera, and South African artistic nationhood
  • Conclusion : engaged musicology, political action, and social justice.