In this Book
- The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Music of the African Diaspora
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Note on Terminology
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- 5 • Slow Death: On Twilight and Loss
- pp. 140-181
- Postscript
- pp. 182-186
- Appendix 1: Eoan’s Music Productions
- pp. 187-210
- Appendix 2: The Eoan Group Constitution
- pp. 211-218
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 261-266
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520971516
Related ISBN(s)
9780520299887, 9780520299894
MARC Record
OCLC
1033547330
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No