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Blackness in Opera

Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093895
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Blackness in Opera written by Naomi Andre and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera. The volume brings a wide-ranging, theoretically informed, interdisciplinary approach to questions about how blackness has been represented in these operas, issues surrounding characterization of blacks, interpretation of racialized roles by blacks and whites, controversies over race in the theatre and the use of blackface, and extensions of blackness along the spectrum from grand opera to musical theatre and film. In addition to essays by scholars, the book also features reflections by renowned American tenor George Shirley. Contributors are Naomi André, Melinda Boyd, Gwynne Kuhner Brown, Karen M. Bryan, Melissa J. de Graaf, Christopher R. Gauthier, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Gayle Murchison, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Eric Saylor, Sarah Schmalenberger, Ann Sears, George Shirley, and Jonathan O. Wipplinger.

Black Opera

Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050614
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Black Opera written by Naomi Andre and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings 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.

Black Opera

Author : Mary Gentle
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575089121
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Black Opera written by Mary Gentle and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical. In this world of miracles, Conrad is an atheist - he sees the same phenomena, but sees no need to attribute them to a Deity ... until his first really successful opera gets the opera-house struck by the lightning bolt of God's disapproval ... ... And Conrad comes to the attention of the Prince's Men, a powerful secret society, who are trying to use the magic of music to their own ends - in this case, an apocalyptic blood sacrifice. Life is about to get interesting for Conrad.

“Der” Rosenkavalier

Author : Richard Strauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book “Der” Rosenkavalier written by Richard Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000563359
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature written by Rachael Durkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.

Watching While Black

Author : Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813553881
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Watching While Black written by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience. Watching While Black considers its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the lives, motivations, distinctions, kindred lines, and individuality of various Black groups and suggest what television might be like if such diversity permeated beyond specialized enclaves. It looks at the macro structures of ownership, producing, casting, and advertising that all inform production, and then delves into television programming crafted to appeal to black audiences—historic and contemporary, domestic and worldwide. Chapters rethink such historically significant programs as Roots and Black Journal, such seemingly innocuous programs as Fat Albert and bro’Town, and such contemporary and culturally complicated programs as Noah’s Arc, Treme, and The Boondocks. The book makes a case for the centrality of these programs while always recognizing the racial dynamics that continue to shape Black representation on the small screen. Painting a decidedly introspective portrait across forty years of Black television, Watching While Black sheds much-needed light on under-examined demographics, broadens common audience considerations, and gives deference to the the preferences of audiences and producers of Black-targeted programming.

Black Opera

Author : Naomi Adele André
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Black Opera written by Naomi Adele André and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Andrâe 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, Andrâe 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" --

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462431
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Janette Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.

Edison's Handy Encyclopædia of General Information and Universal Atlas ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Edison's Handy Encyclopædia of General Information and Universal Atlas ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Musicals, Ourselves

Author : John Bush Jones
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 0874519047
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Our Musicals, Ourselves written by John Bush Jones and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired professor of theater arts from Brandeis University serves up the first social history of American musical theater, covering the broad sweep of plays, from "Showboat" to "Urinetown," discussing the impact of this brand of theater on culture and society. (Performing Arts)

Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135598010
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918 written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.

The Commutation of Villein Services in England Before the Black Death

Author : Howard Levi Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Commutation of Villein Services in England Before the Black Death written by Howard Levi Gray and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sybil. Alroy

Author : Benjamin Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Sybil. Alroy written by Benjamin Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Half-century's Progress of the City of Chicago

Author : International Publishing Co., Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Half-century's Progress of the City of Chicago written by International Publishing Co., Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vivian Grey

Author : Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Vivian Grey written by Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under Pressure

Author : Rashawn Hughes
Publisher : WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS
ISBN 13 : 1936649845
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Under Pressure written by Rashawn Hughes and published by WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quentin 'QB' Banks has always been a fighter, even though it always seems as if he is holding on to life by a mere thread. After serving time in prison, QB returns to his Queens, New York neighborhood and begins working as the Director of U-Turn, an at-risk community center for teenagers. Nicknamed 'OG' (Original Gangster), QB is respected by all, especially two of the center's teenagers, Torry and Chase. When someone tries to gun down QB, Chase and Torry's lives change forever. QB fights to suppress his feelings for revenge, while Torry is faced with a new challenge he doesn't think he can endure. Chase, on the other hand, carries a secret that can destroy them all. Will QB retaliate against his enemies? Will Torry overcome his internal demons? Will Chase come clean, tell the truth, and prevent others from getting hurt? Only time will tell when you're Under Pressure!

Catholics in the Movies

Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198041845
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Catholics in the Movies written by Colleen McDannell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholicism was all over movie screens in 2004. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was at the center of a media firestorm for months. A priest was a crucial character in the Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby. Everyone, it seemed, was talking about how religious stories should be represented, marketed, and received. Catholic characters, spaces, and rituals have been stock features in popular films since the silent era. An intensely visual religion with a well-defined ritual and authority system, Catholicism lends itself to the drama and pageantry of film. Moviegoers watch as Catholic visionaries interact with the supernatural, priests counsel their flocks, reformers fight for social justice, and bishops wield authoritarian power. Rather than being marginal to American popular culture, Catholic people, places, and rituals are all central to the world of the movie. Catholics in the Movies begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to the ways that films appear in culture and describes the broad trends that can be seen in the movies' hundred-year history of representing Catholics. Each chapter is written by a noted scholar of American religion who concentrates on one movie engaging important historical, artistic, and religious issues. Each then places the film within American cultural and social history, discusses the film as an expression of Catholic concerns of the period, and relates the film to others of its genre. Tracing the story of American Catholic history through popular films, Catholics in the Movies should be a valuable resource for anyone interested in American Catholicism and religion and film.