Dreaming in Ensemble
Author | : Lucy Caplan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2025 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674268517 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674268512 |
Rating | : 4/5 (512 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dreaming in Ensemble written by Lucy Caplan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered countercultural forms of expression that reimagined opera as a medium of Black aesthetic and political creativity.