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Blackness in Opera.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252093890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blackness in OperaDDC classification:
  • 782.1089/96
LOC classification:
  • ML1700
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Singing in the Dark Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- Preface -- Introduction: Representing Blackness on the Operatic Stage -- 1. From Otello to Porgy: Blackness, Masculinity, and Morality in Opera Naomi André -- 2. Hearing the Other in The Masque of Blackness Sarah Schmalenberger -- 3. Nationalism, Racial Difference, and "Egyptian" Meaning in Verdi's Aida Christopher R. Gauthier an -- 4. Race, "Realism," and Fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga Eric Saylor -- 5. Political Currents and Black Culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Ann Sears -- 6. Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! in the World of the Harlem Renaissance Karen M. Bryan -- 7. New Paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue Steel Gayle Murchison -- 8. Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as Collaboration Gwynne Kuhner Brown -- 9. Searching for "Authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey Melissa J. De Graaf -- 10. The Politics of Color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones Melinda Boyd -- 11, Performing Race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf Jonathan O. Wipplinger -- 12. Il Rodolfo Nero, or The Masque of Blackness George Shirley -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Singing in the Dark Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- Preface -- Introduction: Representing Blackness on the Operatic Stage -- 1. From Otello to Porgy: Blackness, Masculinity, and Morality in Opera Naomi André -- 2. Hearing the Other in The Masque of Blackness Sarah Schmalenberger -- 3. Nationalism, Racial Difference, and "Egyptian" Meaning in Verdi's Aida Christopher R. Gauthier an -- 4. Race, "Realism," and Fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga Eric Saylor -- 5. Political Currents and Black Culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Ann Sears -- 6. Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! in the World of the Harlem Renaissance Karen M. Bryan -- 7. New Paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue Steel Gayle Murchison -- 8. Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as Collaboration Gwynne Kuhner Brown -- 9. Searching for "Authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey Melissa J. De Graaf -- 10. The Politics of Color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones Melinda Boyd -- 11, Performing Race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf Jonathan O. Wipplinger -- 12. Il Rodolfo Nero, or The Masque of Blackness George Shirley -- Contributors -- Index.

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