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The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid Volume 20
Contributor(s): Roos, Hilde (Author)
ISBN: 0520299892     ISBN-13: 9780520299894
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Opera
- Music | Ethnomusicology
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 792.509
LCCN: 2018016617
Series: Music of the African Diaspora
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a "coloured" cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan's opera activities from the group's inception in 1933 until the cessation of their productions by 1980. It explores larger questions of complicity, compromise, and compliance; of assimilation, appropriation, and race; and of "European art music" in situations of "non-European" dispossession and disenfranchisement. Performing under the auspices of apartheid, the group's unquestioned acceptance of and commitment to the art of opera could not redeem it from the entanglements that came with the political compromises it made. Uncovering a rich trove of primary source materials, Hilde Roos presents here for the first time the story of one of the premier cultural agencies of apartheid South Africa.