Adjoa Osei

Elsie Houston (eBook, ePUB)

Revolutionary Soprano

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new biography traces the fascinating life and work of Elsie Houston, a Brazilian, mixed-race, classically trained soprano who captured the 1920s and 1930s Western artistic vogue for black exotica by restylizing Afro-Brazilian folk songs on elite stages in Paris and New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197693186
• Artikelnr.: 72673107

Autorenporträt

Adjoa Osei is a Research Fellow of History of Race at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She is a cultural historian whose research is actively interdisciplinary, exploring themes that are at the intersection of performing arts, Brazilian studies, Afro-Latin American studies, and Francophone studies. Her research has been published in major refereed journals and books. As a BBC New Generation Thinker, Adjoa has a growing portfolio of public engagement and media work. Prior to her career as a public intellectual, Adjoa worked internationally as a showgirl.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Black Brazil in Paris
Chapter Two: Running with the Surrealists
Chapter Three: A Passport to Brazil
Chapter Four: Baiana baiana baiana!
Chapter Five: Voodoo in Harlem
Chapter Six: The Primitive Quality of the Modern
Index
Bibliograpy