Opera in a Multicultural World

Opera in a Multicultural World
Author: Mary Ingraham,Joseph So,Roy Moodley
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-06-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781317444824

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Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions that occur across the time and place(s) of their performance. This collection brings academic researchers in opera studies into conversation with previously unheard voices of performers, critics, and creators to speak to issues of race, ethnicity, and culture in the genre. Together, they deliver a powerful critique of the perpetuation of the values and practices of dominant cultures in operatic representations of intercultural encounters. Essays accordingly cross methodological boundaries in order to focus on a central issue in the emerging field of coloniality: the hierarchies of social and political power that include the legacy of racialized practices. In theorizing coloniality through intercultural exchange in opera, authors explore a range of topics and case studies that involve immigrant, indigenous, exoticist, and other cultural representations and consider a broad repertoire that includes lesser-known Canadian operas, Chinese- and African-American performances, as well as works by Haydn, Strauss, Puccini, and Wagner, and in performances spanning three continents and over two centuries. In these ways, the collection contributes to the development of a more integrated understanding of the interdisciplinary fields inherent in opera, including musicology, sociology, anthropology, and others connected to Theatre, Gender, and Cultural Studies.

Opera in a Multicultural World

Opera in a Multicultural World
Author: Joseph So,Roy Moodley
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 080209824X

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Opera in a Multicultural World

Opera in a Multicultural World
Author: Mary I. Ingraham,Joseph K. So,Roy Moodley
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2016
Genre: China
ISBN: 1317444817

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Opera in a Multicultural World

Opera in a Multicultural World
Author: Mary I. Ingraham,Joseph K. So,Roy Moodley
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0367598795

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This book explores multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, and the ambiguities of cultural values and practices that occur across the time and place(s) of performance. In theorizing coloniality through intercu

Popular New Orleans

Popular New Orleans
Author: Florian Freitag
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781000196955

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New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media from literature, photographs, and plays to movies, television shows, and theme parks. Addressing students and fans of the city and of popular culture, Popular New Orleans examines three pivotal moments in the history of New Orleans in popular media: the creation of the popular image of the Crescent City during the late nineteenth century in the local-color writings published in Scribner’s Monthly/Century Magazine; the translation of this image into three-dimensional immersive spaces during the twentieth century in Disney’s theme parks and resorts in California, Florida, and Japan; and the radical transformation of this image following Hurricane Katrina in public performances such as Mardi Gras parades and operas. Covering visions of the Crescent City from George W. Cable’s Old Creole Days stories (1873-1876) to Disneyland’s "New Orleans Square" (1966) to Rosalyn Story’s opera Wading Home (2015), Popular New Orleans traces how popular images of New Orleans have changed from exceptional to exemplary.

African Theatre

African Theatre
Author: Christine Matzke,Lena van der Hoven,Christopher Odhiambo,Hilde Roos
Publsiher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781847012579

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Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession

Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession
Author: Anna Bull,Laudan Nooshin,Christina Scharff
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2023
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780197601211

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"This volume advances understanding of the nature of current inequalities in the field of classical music production in the Global North, exploring why inequalities continue to exist, and asking what can be done to tackle ongoing exclusions. It constitutes an urgent intervention into these contemporary debates, drawing together ongoing and emergent analyses from scholars, activists and musicians in a variety of countries across Europe and North America to foreground both scholarly examination of these inequalities, alongside discussion of strategies and catalysts for change. Academic accounts investigate inequalities in higher education and the classical music industry, exploring racial, class and gender inequalities, 'authenticity', disability representation, changing the canon, and neoliberalism. The book also includes interviews with those working in the classical music industry where they reflect on issues of diversity and share insights and inspiration as well as good practice, putting into dialogue scholarly and industry-based accounts. Themes of the book include institutional legacies and possibilities for change; racial, gender and class inequalities and marginalised voices; and strategies for activism whether reflective practices, informal networks, or larger organisations leading change"--

Opera After the Zero Hour

Opera After the Zero Hour
Author: Emily Richmond Pollock
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780190063757

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Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany presents opera as a site for the renegotiation of tradition in a politically fraught era of rebuilding. Though the "Zero Hour" put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar West Germany, the postwar era was characterized by significant cultural continuity with the past. With nearly all of the major opera houses destroyed and a complex relationship to the competing ethics of modernism and restoration, opera was a richly contested art form, and the genre's reputed conservatism was remarkably multi-faceted. Author Emily Richmond Pollock explores how composers developed different strategies to make new opera "new" while still deferring to historical conventions, all of which carried cultural resonances of their own. Diverse approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies in works by Boris Blacher, Hans Werner Henze, Carl Orff, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Werner Egk. Each opera alludes to a distinct cultural or musical past, from Greek tragedy to Dada, bel canto to Berg. Pollock's discussions of these pieces draw on source studies, close readings, unpublished correspondence, institutional history, and critical commentary to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced these operas' creation and reception. The result is new insight into how the particular opposition between a conservative genre and the idea of the "Zero Hour" motivated the development of opera's social, aesthetic, and political value after World War II.