1933
1980
A01=Dr. Hilde Roos
A01=Hilde Roos
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
appropriation
art of opera
assimilation
Author_Dr. Hilde Roos
Author_Hilde Roos
automatic-update
cape
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AVA
Category=AVC
Category=AVGC9
Category=AVLF
Category=HBJH
Category=HBLW
Category=JHMC
Category=NHB
Category=NHH
colored cultural organization
compliance
complicity
compromise
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
disenfranchisement
eoan group
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
european art music
historiographic work
Language_English
non european dispossession
opera
opera activities
PA=Temporarily unavailable
performing opera
political compromises
politics
premier cultural agencies
Price_€50 to €100
production
PS=Active
race
softlaunch
south africa
Product details
- ISBN 9780520299887
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a “coloured” cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan’s opera activities from the group’s inception in 1933 until the cessation of their productions by 1980. It explores larger questions of complicity, compromise, and compliance; of assimilation, appropriation, and race; and of “European art music” in situations of “non-European” dispossession and disenfranchisement. Performing under the auspices of apartheid, the group’s unquestioned acceptance of and commitment to the art of opera could not redeem it from the entanglements that came with the political compromises it made. Uncovering a rich trove of primary source materials, Hilde Roos presents here for the first time the story of one of the premier cultural agencies of apartheid South Africa.
Hilde Roos is the General Manager of Africa Open Institute for Music, Research, and Innovation at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests concern the archive, historical representations of the practice of Western art music and the concomitant (colonial) mutations thereof in South Africa.
