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Summary:

Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered countercultural forms of expression that reimagined opera as a medium of Black aesthetic and political creativity.

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Dawning of Black Operatic Counterculture
• 2. New Selves, New Spheres
• 3. "The Forgotten Man of the Opera
• 4. "My Skin Was My Costume
• 5. Composing Afrodiasporic History
• 6. The Countercultural Roots of Desegregation
• 7. Open Doors and Shadow Archives
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Index

Author/Creator:

Caplan, Lucy , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Dreaming in ensemble: how Black artists transformed American opera [by Caplan, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Dreaming in Ensemble [by Caplan, L.] (Cambridge : Harvard University Press,c2025 — ISBN 9780674268517)

Subjects:

Opera — United States — 20th century

African American composers — History — 20th century

African Americans — Music — History and criticism

Music and race — United States — History — 20th century

Race in opera — History — 20th century

Black people in opera — History — 20th century

Racism against Black people — United States — History — 20th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

ML1711.9 .C36 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780674299528 (electronic book)
0674299523 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1482266520

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31734769 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21288148