Book Review
Dec. 27th, 2021 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariBlack Opera: History, Power, Engagement
by Naomi André
This thought-provoking and exceedingly well-written book covers black people and blackness in opera during the 20th and 21st centuries in American and South Africa. André focuses primarily on Porgy and Bess, Carmen and three of its adaptations, and Winnie: The Opera (about Winnie Mandela). She covers issues of representation, liberation, activism, justice, and how opera can be a locus for any or all of these things. She gives a fresh view of opera and what it can do culturally and artistically.
by Naomi André
This thought-provoking and exceedingly well-written book covers black people and blackness in opera during the 20th and 21st centuries in American and South Africa. André focuses primarily on Porgy and Bess, Carmen and three of its adaptations, and Winnie: The Opera (about Winnie Mandela). She covers issues of representation, liberation, activism, justice, and how opera can be a locus for any or all of these things. She gives a fresh view of opera and what it can do culturally and artistically.
