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Blackness in Opera

  • ISBN-13: 9780252036781
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • Edited by Naomi Andre, Edited by Karen M. Bryan, Edited by Eric Saylor, Foreword by Guthrie Ramsey
  • Price: AUD $80.99
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  • Local release date: 15/04/2012
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A multidisciplinary cross-section of scholars place well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Otello) alongside lesser-known works such as Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga!, and William Grant Still's Blue Steel to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera. The volume brings a wide-ranging, theoretically informed, interdisciplinary approach to questions about how blackness has been represented in these operas, issues surrounding characterization of blacks, interpretation of racialized roles by blacks and whites, controversies over race in the theatre and the use of blackface, and extensions of blackness along the spectrum from grand opera to musical theatre and film. In addition to essays by scholars, the book also features comments by renowned tenor George Shirley.
''A fascinating collection of essays, exhaustively footnoted... which I have found absolutely riveting, full of new information an d giving much food for thought'' - Rodney Milnes, Opera
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