adaptation
African American cultural history
African American culture
African American music
African American opera
Aida
Ann Sears
black cultural history
black culture
black music
black opera
blackface
blackness
blackness and music
blackness and opera
Blue Steel
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Christopher R. Gauthier
Clarence Cameron White
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Eric Saylor
film
Gayle Murchison
George Shirley
George Shirly
Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
Gwynne Kuhner Brown
Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Karen M. Bryan
Koanga
Melinda Boyd
Melissa J. de Graaf
movie musical
movies
music
music history
musical film
musical theater
musical theatre
musicals
Naomi Andre
opera
opera history
Ouanga
Porgy and Bess
race
race and music
race and opera
representation
Sarah Schmalenberger
theater
theatre
Treemonisha
William Grant Sill
Product details
- ISBN 9780252080432
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2014
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! 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 reflections by renowned American tenor George Shirley. Contributors are Naomi AndrÉ, Melinda Boyd, Gwynne Kuhner Brown, Karen M. Bryan, Melissa J. de Graaf, Christopher R. Gauthier, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Gayle Murchison, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Eric Saylor, Sarah Schmalenberger, Ann Sears, George Shirley, and Jonathan O. Wipplinger.
Naomi AndrÉ is an associate professor of women's studies at the University of Michigan. Karen M. Bryan is a professor and chair of the department of music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Eric Saylor is an associate professor of musicology at Drake University.
