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Carmen
Carmen Jones
Carmen: A Hip-Hopera
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From the Diary of Sally Hemings
gender
George Gershwin
Harlem Renaissance
Harold Cruse
interracial relationships
intersectional analysis
Isango Ensemble
James Weldon Johnson
Jewishness and whiteness
Jim Crow
Leontyne Price
Marian Anderson
Minstrelsy in South Africa
Minstrelsy in the US
nation
Neo Muyanga
opera
Porgy and Bess
race
Saartijie Baartman
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
Sandra Seaton
sexuality
shadow culture in opera
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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
William Bolcom
Product details
- ISBN 9780252041921
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2018
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 André 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, André 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.
Naomi André is an associate professor in the departments of African and Afroamerican Studies and Women's Studies. She also is associate director in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera and coeditor of Blackness in Opera.
