Title:
Opera Indigene : re/presenting first nations and indigenous cultures / edited by Pamela Karantonis and Dylan Robinson
Author:
Karantonis, Pamela
Robinson, Dylan
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Call Number:
ML1700 .O67 2016
Abstract:
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:
9781138250826
Series:
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
Contents:
pt. 1. Critical and comparative contexts : opera's colonizing force and decolonizing potential -- pt. 2. Australian perspectives -- pt. 3. Indianism in the Americas -- pt. 4. Canadian perspectives -- pt. 5. New creation and collaborative processes.
Part 1: Critical and comparative contexts : opera's colonizing force and decolonizing potential. Orpheus conquistador /Nicholas Till ; Decentering opera : early twenty-first-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 2: 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 3: Indianism in the Americas. Indianismo in Brazilian romantic opera : shifting ideologies of national foundation /Maria Alice Volpe ; Native songs, Indianist styles, and the processes 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 4: 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, monstrous depths : Barbara Pentland and Dorothy Livesay's The lake / Dylan Robinson ; The politics of genre : exposing historical tensions in Harry Somer's Louis Riel / Colleen L. Renihan -- Part 5: 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 new indigenous opera in Australia / Deborah Cheetham and Daniel browning, interviewed by Pamela Karantonis.
