Blackness in opera

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: André, Naomi Adele, Bryan, Karen M. (Karen McGaha), 1954-, Saylor, Eric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: representing blackness on the operatic stage
  • From Otello to Porgy: blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera / Naomi André
  • Hearing the other in The masque of blackness / Sarah Schmalenberger
  • Nationalism, racial difference, and "Egyptian" meaning in Verdi's Aida / Christopher R. Gauthier and Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
  • Race, "realism," and fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga / Eric Saylor
  • Political currents and black culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha / Ann Sears
  • Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! in the world of the Harlem Renaissance / Karen M. Bryan
  • New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison
  • Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown
  • Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf
  • The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd
  • Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. Wipplinger
  • Il rodolfo nero, or the masque of blackness / George Shirley.