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Opera in a Multicultural World - Coloniality, Culture, Performance (Paperback)
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Opera in a Multicultural World - Coloniality, Culture, Performance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Music
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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.
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