TitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1Engaged Opera2Black Opera across the Atlantic: Writing Black Music History and Opera’s Unusual Place3Haunted Legacies: Interracial Secrets From the Diary of Sally Hemings4Contextualizing Race and Gender in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess5Carmen: From Nineteenth-Century France to Settings in the United States and South Africa in the6Winnie, Opera, and South African Artistic NationhoodConclusion: Engaged Musicology, Political Action, and Social JusticeNotesBibliographyIndex
Naomi André is an associate professor in the departments of
African and Afroamerican Studies and Women's Studies. She also is
associate director in the Residential College at the University of
Michigan. She is the author of Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti,
and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera and
coeditor of Blackness in Opera.
Irving Lowens Book Award, 2020
Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, 2020
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