Author : Naomi Andre
Release : 2018-05-04
Genre : Music
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Black Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Opera write by Naomi Andre. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Black Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 André 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, André 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.