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1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- OBITUARIES. Remembering Victor Ukaegbu / Oladipo Agboluaje -- Sidwell Hartman & George Stevens / Michael Arendse -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lena van der Hoven, Christine Matzke, Hilde Roos and Christopher Joseph Odhiambo -- ARTICLES. A revolt in (more than just) four parts: notes from a composer in South Africa / Neo Muyanga -- 'It was here, you must remember, our children played their games': a historiography of District Six Musical Theatre / Paula Fourie -- 'Opera is an art form for everyone': Black empowerment in the South African opera adaptations Unogumbe (2013) and Breathe - Umphefumlo (2015) / Lena van der Hoven and Liani Maasdorp -- 'We can't let politics define the arts': interviews with South African opera singers / Lena van der Hoven -- Aida 's legacy or de-/colonising music theatre in Egypt: the example of the Cairo Opera House / Nora Amin -- Toward an African operatic voice: composition, dramaturgy and identity strategies in New Yorùbá opera / Bode Omojola -- The phantom of the West African opera: a tour d' horizon / Tobias Robert Klein -- The "African opera village" turns ten: three perspectives on a controversial project in Burkina Faso / Fabian Lehmann, Wilfried Zoungrana and Andrea Reikat -- 'I smoked them out': perspectives on the emergence of folk opera or 'musical plays' in Uganda / Sam Kasule -- 'Home is where the memory persists most': introducing Zainabu Jallo's We take care of our own / Christine Matzke -- PLAYSCRIPT. We take care of our own / Zainabu Jallo -- BOOK REVIEWS edited by Sola Adeyemi. Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong on Chima Osakwe, The revolutionary drama and theatre of Femi Osofisan -- Chris Dunton on S. M. Mofokeng, Senkatana -- 'Funmi Adewole on Victor N. Gomia and Gilbert S. Ndi, eds., Re-writing pasts, imagining futures: critical explorations of contemporary African fiction and theater -- Christopher Odhiambo on Angelo Gobbato, A passion for opera -- JC Niala on Koulsy Lamko, Bintou wéré: African opera -- Christopher Odhiambo on Musa Ngqungwana, Odyssey of an African opera singer -- Hilde Roos on Mary I. Ingraham, Joseph K. So and Roy Moodley, eds., Opera in a multicultural world: coloniality, culture, performance -- Allison R. Smith on Hilde Roos, The La Traviata affair: opera in the age of apartheid -- Wayne Muller on Naomi André, Black opera: history, power, engagement -- William Fourie on Naomi André, Donato Somma and Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi, eds., 'New voices in Black South African opera', African Studies, vol. 75, no. 1 |
| Summary |
Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Online resource; viewed September 15, 2021 |
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Opera -- Africa
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Musical theater -- Africa -- History and criticism
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Opera.
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DRAMA -- African.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
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Musical theater
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Opera
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matzke, Christine, editor.
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Hoven, Lena van der, editor.
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Odhiambo, Christopher, editor.
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Roos, Hilde, editor.
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EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781787449503 |
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1787449505 |
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9781800100275 |
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1800100272 |
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