Naomi André
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041921
- eISBN:
- 9780252050619
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041921.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
This is a book about thinking, interpreting, and writing about music in performance that incorporates how race, gender, sexuality, and nation help shape the analysis of opera today. Case-study operas ...
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This is a book about thinking, interpreting, and writing about music in performance that incorporates how race, gender, sexuality, and nation help shape the analysis of opera today. Case-study operas are chosen within the diaspora of the United States and South Africa. Both countries had segregation policies that kept black performers and musicians out of opera. During the civil rights movement and after apartheid, black performers in both countries not only excelled in opera, they also began writing their own stories into the genre. Featured operas in this study span the Atlantic and bring together works performed in the West (the United States and Europe) and South Africa. Focal works are: From the Diary of Sally Hemings (William Bolcom and Sandra Seaton), Porgy and Bess, and Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen). A chapter is devoted to the nineteenth-century Carmens (novella by Mérimée and opera by Bizet) and black settings in the United States (Carmen Jones, Carmen: A Hip Hopera) and South Africa (U-Carmen eKhayelitsha). Woven within the discussions of specific works are three rubrics for how the text and music create the drama: Who is in the story? Who speaks? and Who is in the audience doing the interpreting? These questions, combined with a historical context that includes how a work also resonates in the present day, form the basis for an engaged musicological practice.Less
This is a book about thinking, interpreting, and writing about music in performance that incorporates how race, gender, sexuality, and nation help shape the analysis of opera today. Case-study operas are chosen within the diaspora of the United States and South Africa. Both countries had segregation policies that kept black performers and musicians out of opera. During the civil rights movement and after apartheid, black performers in both countries not only excelled in opera, they also began writing their own stories into the genre. Featured operas in this study span the Atlantic and bring together works performed in the West (the United States and Europe) and South Africa. Focal works are: From the Diary of Sally Hemings (William Bolcom and Sandra Seaton), Porgy and Bess, and Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen). A chapter is devoted to the nineteenth-century Carmens (novella by Mérimée and opera by Bizet) and black settings in the United States (Carmen Jones, Carmen: A Hip Hopera) and South Africa (U-Carmen eKhayelitsha). Woven within the discussions of specific works are three rubrics for how the text and music create the drama: Who is in the story? Who speaks? and Who is in the audience doing the interpreting? These questions, combined with a historical context that includes how a work also resonates in the present day, form the basis for an engaged musicological practice.
Naomi André
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041921
- eISBN:
- 9780252050619
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041921.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the ...
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This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the United States, and the representation of blackness in opera more generally. With a reading of postcolonial and post-apartheid theorists (for example, Homi Bhabha and the “unhomely,” Karin Barber and entextualization, and Sarah Nuttal’s entanglement), this chapter also draws upon the Global South (and global studies) along with transnationalism. This chapter examines events from the opera in Winnie Mandela’s life (torture, the Mandela United Football Club, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as they are characterized musically and in the drama.Less
This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the United States, and the representation of blackness in opera more generally. With a reading of postcolonial and post-apartheid theorists (for example, Homi Bhabha and the “unhomely,” Karin Barber and entextualization, and Sarah Nuttal’s entanglement), this chapter also draws upon the Global South (and global studies) along with transnationalism. This chapter examines events from the opera in Winnie Mandela’s life (torture, the Mandela United Football Club, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as they are characterized musically and in the drama.
James Mitchell
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748639908
- eISBN:
- 9780748672080
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639908.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter explores the struggle of the Scottish National Party (SNP) to be a part of mainstream of Scottish politics and the potential of blackmailing. The Hamilton by-election was an important ...
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This chapter explores the struggle of the Scottish National Party (SNP) to be a part of mainstream of Scottish politics and the potential of blackmailing. The Hamilton by-election was an important milestone in the party's development. The election of Winnie Ewing as Hamilton's MP pronounced the beginning of a new era in Scottish politics. The SNP's blackmail potential was linked almost exclusively to its capacity to win votes from other parties. Scottish politics became polarised in the late 1980s. The SNP had succeeded in determining itself on the left by 1997. The double whammy of the referendum defeat and election losses in 1979 had a devastating effect on the SNP. The most striking feature of the SNP during the 30 years after the Hamilton by-election was that it succeeded in maintaining a parliamentary presence at all.Less
This chapter explores the struggle of the Scottish National Party (SNP) to be a part of mainstream of Scottish politics and the potential of blackmailing. The Hamilton by-election was an important milestone in the party's development. The election of Winnie Ewing as Hamilton's MP pronounced the beginning of a new era in Scottish politics. The SNP's blackmail potential was linked almost exclusively to its capacity to win votes from other parties. Scottish politics became polarised in the late 1980s. The SNP had succeeded in determining itself on the left by 1997. The double whammy of the referendum defeat and election losses in 1979 had a devastating effect on the SNP. The most striking feature of the SNP during the 30 years after the Hamilton by-election was that it succeeded in maintaining a parliamentary presence at all.
Justine McConnell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199605002
- eISBN:
- 9780191751226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605002.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela confronts the double colonization suffered by women of imperially oppressed nations. In depicting a selection of South African women, Ndebele offers a new Penelope ...
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Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela confronts the double colonization suffered by women of imperially oppressed nations. In depicting a selection of South African women, Ndebele offers a new Penelope paradigm for the twenty first century, one constructed by women who admire and empathize with Winnie Mandela—that famous ‘Penelope’ figure left alone by her husband, but whose choices are very different. Offering an alternative approach to that espoused by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, both the form of Ndebele’s novel and the characters within it suggest a different way to heal the wounds of apartheid. Furthermore, with the focus on the women, it is their journeys that become central, and which are seen to be—unlike the journeys of the male protagonists examined in this volume—centrifugal, rather than centripetal.Less
Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela confronts the double colonization suffered by women of imperially oppressed nations. In depicting a selection of South African women, Ndebele offers a new Penelope paradigm for the twenty first century, one constructed by women who admire and empathize with Winnie Mandela—that famous ‘Penelope’ figure left alone by her husband, but whose choices are very different. Offering an alternative approach to that espoused by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, both the form of Ndebele’s novel and the characters within it suggest a different way to heal the wounds of apartheid. Furthermore, with the focus on the women, it is their journeys that become central, and which are seen to be—unlike the journeys of the male protagonists examined in this volume—centrifugal, rather than centripetal.
Michael Taussig
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013901
- eISBN:
- 9780262289696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013901.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter reflects on humming, which usually implies rhythm—the rhythm of the body in motion. It argues that humming, which involves the voice and is usually sung, moves in and out of ...
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This chapter reflects on humming, which usually implies rhythm—the rhythm of the body in motion. It argues that humming, which involves the voice and is usually sung, moves in and out of understandable language and often works in tandem with body movement. Humming is evident in Iroquois ritual or in the utterance of Winnie-the-Pooh. The chapter stresses the creative force of the voice and its power to make things happen.Less
This chapter reflects on humming, which usually implies rhythm—the rhythm of the body in motion. It argues that humming, which involves the voice and is usually sung, moves in and out of understandable language and often works in tandem with body movement. Humming is evident in Iroquois ritual or in the utterance of Winnie-the-Pooh. The chapter stresses the creative force of the voice and its power to make things happen.
