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BookOpera indigene : re/presenting first nations and indigenous cultures / edited by Pamela Karantonis and Dylan Robinson.
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Australian Works Analysed in this Book
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| Voss (1985) by Richard Meale and David Malouf |
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| Young Kabbarli (1964) by Margaret Sutherland and Maie Casey |
| Eighth wonder by Alan John and Dennis Watkins | |
| Lindy (1997) by Moya Henderson, Judith Rodriguez and Moya Henderson | |
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| Journey to Horseshoe Bend, op. 64 (2003) by Andrew Schultz and Gordon Kalton Williams |
Product details
The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been
a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse
relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous
cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera
Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing the changing
historical depictions of Indigenous cultures in opera and the
more contemporary practices of Indigenous and First Nations
artists. The use of 're/presenting' in the title signals an
important distinction between how representations of Indigenous
identity have been constructed in operatic history and how
Indigenous artists have more recently utilized opera as an
interface to present and develop their cultural practices.
This volume explores how operas on Indigenous subjects reflect
the evolving relationships between Indigenous peoples, the
colonizing forces of imperial power, and forms of internal
colonization in developing nation-states. 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 in a stimulating comparative study of
operatic re/presentation.
ISBN: 9780754669890
Contents note: 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; Pecan Summer: the process of making a new indigenous opera in Australia, Deborah Cheetham and Daniel Browning, interviewed by Pamela Karantonis.
This product forms part of the following series: Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
Includes bibliography and index.
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