| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Music of the African diaspora ; 20
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Music of the African diaspora ; 20.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
We live to serve: a demi-monde before art -- The La Traviata affair: from courtesan to lover -- Eoan's best opera success: an amorous fantasy -- Scala is Scala and Eoan is Eoan: the struggle to breathe -- Slow death: on twilight and loss -- Appendix 1 : Eoan's music productions -- Appendix 2 : the Eoan group consitution. |
| Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eoan Group.
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Eoan Group. |
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Opera -- South Africa -- 20th century.
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Opera. |
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South Africa. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Apartheid -- South Africa.
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Apartheid. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roos, Hilde. Traviata affair. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520299887 (DLC) 2018016617 |
| ISBN |
9780520971516 (electronic book) |
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0520971515 (electronic book) |
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9780520299887 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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