Blackness in opera
Blackness in opera [electronic resource] /
edited by Naomi Andre, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
- xii, 289 p. : ill., music, ports.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Blacks in opera.
Opera.
Electronic books.
ML1700 / .B53 2013
782.1089/96
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Blacks in opera.
Opera.
Electronic books.
ML1700 / .B53 2013
782.1089/96