
Description
Product Details
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Publish Date | May 04, 2018 |
Pages | 282 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780252083570 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
Irving Lowens Book Award, 2020
Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, 2020
"A necessary exploration of how race has shaped the opera landscape in the United States and South Africa."--New York Times
"A compelling companion to Rosalyn Story's important text And So I Sing. Where Story focused on constructing the general historiography, Black Opera expands this to a more analytical discussion of how black women have been represented socially, visually, and aesthetically through certain operatic roles. This perspective is unique, innovative, and fills a void in the scholarship on opera."--Tammy Kernodle, author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
"Andre explores the background, identity and intention of the composer and librettist, and the genre, in a way that is illuminating and paints a vivid picture for the reader. . . .Overall, this book does contribute greatly to the literature in the field and is relevant to musicologists, sociologists of music and culture, as well as practitioners in the field of opera." --Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Nestled within the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology, African Studies, and cultural theory, this truly interdisciplinary monograph points to a new way to analyze music's place in the past and the present."--New Books Network
"This book reveals and examines the entire hidden history of race in opera and presents us with a vision of the art form as an inherently powerful and liberating cultural force. This is a power punch of a book and not to be missed." --Book Riot
"This wide-ranging and-a positive sense-provocative study . . . should interest anyone concerned with teaching and studying the shifting functions of opera in an even more shifting world."--Opera News
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