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Author André, Naomi Adele, author

Title Black opera : history, power, engagement / Naomi André
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018

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Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Black people in opera
Opera.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
MUSIC -- General.
Black people in opera
Opera
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019716427
ISBN 9780252050619
0252050614