Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera by Lucy Caplan
Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera

Lucy Caplan

Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera

Lucy Caplan

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Caplan argues that Black opera in the early twentieth century had decidedly countercultural ambitions. In opera’s sonic grandeur and dramatic maximalism, artists found creative resources for expressing the complexity of Black life. The protagonist...

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