Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Karantonis, Pamela; Robinson, Dylan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry, however, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and indigenous cultures have received less attention. Opera Indigene addresses the changing historical depictions of indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary hybridizations of the form by indigenous and First Nations artists. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, ethnomusicology, cultural geography and critical discourses on nationalism and multiculturalism, the collection brings together experts on opera and music in Canada, the Americas and Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317085423
• Artikelnr.: 45095966

Autorenporträt

Pamela Karantonis is Senior Lecturer in Voice at Bath Spa University, UK. She is a Convenor of the Music Theatre Working Group of The International Federation for Theatre Research. She is joint editor and contributing author for Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (Ashgate, 2014) and The Legacy of Opera (2013). Dylan Robinson has held research positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music and as a Visiting Scholar in Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently working on a book that investigates the degree to which musical reconciliation in Canada reflects a process of restorative justice. His research theorizes how Indigenous epistemology and worldviews might impact upon the re-telling of music history in North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Pamela Karantonis and Dylan Robinson; Part I
Critical and Comparative Contexts: Opera's Colonizing Force and
Decolonizing Potential: Orpheus conquistador, Nicholas Till; Decentering
opera: early 21st-century indigenous production, Beverley Diamond; 'Singing
from the margins': postcolonial themes in Voss and Waiting for the
Barbarians, Michael Halliwell; Performativity mimesis, and indigenous
opera, Pamela Karantonis. Part II Australian Perspectives: 'To didj or not
to didj': exploring indigenous representation in Australian music theater
works by Margaret Sutherland and Andrew Schultz, Anne Boyd; Giving voice to
the un-voiced 'witch' and the 'heart of nothingness': Moya Henderson's
Lindy, Linda Kouvaras; The Eighth Wonder: explorations of place and voice,
Anne Power. Part III Indianism in the Americas: Indianismo in Brazilian
romantic opera: shifting ideologies of national foundation, Maria Alice
Volpe; Native songs, Indianist styles and the process of music
idealization, Tara Browner; Composed and produced in the American West,
1912-1913: two operatic portrayals of First Nations cultures, Catherine
Parsons Smith. Part IV Canadian Perspectives: Assimilation, integration,
and individuation: the evolution of First Nations musical citizenship in
Canadian opera, Mary I. Ingraham; 'Too much white man in it': aesthetic
colonization in Tzinquaw, Alison Greene; Peaceful surface and monstrous
depths: Barbara Pentland and Dorothy Livesay's The Lake, Dylan Robinson;
The politics of genre: exposing historical tensions in Harry Somers's Louis
Riel, Coleen L. Renihan. Part V New Creation and Collaborative Processes:
Creating Pimooteewin, Robin Elliott; After McPhee: Evan Ziporyn's A House
in Bali, Victoria Vaughan; West coast First Peoples and The Magic Flute:
Tracing the journey of a cross-cultural collaboration, Robert McQueen
interviewed by Dylan Robinson, with responses by Cathi Charles Wherry and
Tracey Herbert, Lorna Williams, and Marion Newman; P