Black Opera
History, Power, Engagement
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2018
296 pages
978-0-252-05061-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. Naomi Andre draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, Andre 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. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Black Opera
- 1 Engaged Opera
- 2 Black Opera across the Atlantic: Writing Black Music History and Opera's Unusual Place
- 3 Haunted Legacies: Interracial Secrets From the Diary of Sally Hemings
- 4 Contextualizing Race and Gender in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
- 5 Carmen: From Nineteenth-Century France to Settings in the United States and South Africa in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 6 Winnie, Opera, and South African Artistic Nationhood
- Conclusion: Engaged Musicology, Political Action, and Social Justice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
