Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Andre, Naomi

Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement

From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen...
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Author: Naomi Andre
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Language: English
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Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Andre, Naomi

Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement

$100.23

Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement

$100.23
Author: Naomi Andre
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 Andr 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, Andr 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.

Author: Naomi Andre
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 05/04/2018
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780252083570

About the Author
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.

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