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  Davis, Sammy Jr., 90

  Davis, Thulani, 12, 177–78

  Dawson, Mary Caldwell, 35

  Dawson, William, 99

  Dayton Opera Company, 11

  Deaville, James, 218n2

  De Lavallade, Carmen, 141, 150

  De Leuven, Adolphe, 122

  Deller, Alfred, 200

  desegregation, 5, 171. See also integration

  Detroit, Michigan, 200–203

  Detroit Soup, 203, 237n27

  Dickens, Charles, 51

  Dimpho di Kopane, 49–51, 234n24, 234n26. See also Isango Ensemble

  District Six, Cape Town, South Africa, 36–37, 40, 217n57

  District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, 50, 52

  Donizetti, Gaetano, 181

  Dornford-May, Mark, 49–50, 51, 52, 121t, 122

  Dorson, Richard, 95–96

  double consciousness, American music and, 99

  Dovey, Lindiwe, 157–58

  downstage, 9–10

  Drury, Theodore, 33

  dubbing, 134–38

  Du Bois, W. E. B., 28, 96, 99, 142

  Du Locle, Camille, 122

  Duncan, Todd, 89, 134, 179

  Dunham, Katherine, 141

  Dupri, Jermaine, 148

  Durban, South Africa, 37, 44, 182

  Dvořák, Antonín, 91–92, 93, 94, 175

  Dyson, Michael, 145

  Eastern European immigration, 88, 104–5

  education, 14

  educational institutions, 36

  Effinger-Crichlow, Marta J., 214n11

  Elliott, Missy, 230n49

  Emancipation, 23, 30

  encoding, 22

  engaged musicology, 1, 14, 19, 26, 193–208

  “entanglement,” 171

  envoice, 218n2

  envoicing, 218n2

  Eoan Group, 36–37, 40, 217n50

  Epps, Martha, 63t, 64

  Epps, Susannah, 59, 63t, 64, 71, 219n14

  Erasmus, Paul, 184

  Ethiopia, 41

  Ethiopian Operas, 32

  ethnicity, 20, 121, 131–32

  Europe: African American singers in, 35; European art music, 30–31; minstrelsy in, 32; opera and national identity in, 174–75; opera in, 168–70. See also specific countries and traditions

  Ewing, Maria, 14

  exoticism, 16, 123, 127, 131, 150–51, 156, 158, 161, 165–66, 170, 204–5

  Fabian, Johannes, 212n36

  Federal Music Project, 96

  female singers, 43–44

  femininity, 24, 123. See also womanhood

  feminism, 151–52, 153, 230n45

  feminist intersectional analysis, 5

  feminist theory, 194

  Finney, Shirley Jo, 182

  Fisk Jubilee Singers, 30–34

  Fisk University, 30–31, 32

  Fleming, Renée, 3

  Flint, Michigan, contaminated water supply in, 14

  Floyd, Samuel, 28

  “folk,” 85, 87, 95–96

  folklore, 95–96

  folk music, 95–96

  Fossett, Joe, 220n24

  Four Saints and Three Acts, 21, 89, 99, 118, 224n27

  Frazier, E. Franklin, 38, 215n28

  Freeman, Harry Lawrence, 11, 35, 99, 211n20, 225n28

  Freire, Paulo, 5, 195–96

  Freni, Mirella, 47

  Friedan, Betty, 151–52

  From the Diary of Sally Hemings, 11, 23, 55–84, 177–78; aural markers in, 74–75; exploring verbal text of, 67–71; genre and, 69–71, 72–73; as interracial collaboration, 65–67; legacies of the past in, 76–83; listening to the music, 73–75; as “monodrama,” 70, 72; musical score, 69–71, 70; “Program Notes,” 78–79; recording of, 69, 84; as “solo opera,” 72; as song cycle, 71; verbal text of, 67–71; writing and composition of, 65–67

  Fugard, Athol, 217n57

  Fugard Theatre, 50, 52, 217n57

  Galli-Marié, Célestine, 122

  García, Manuel, 29–30

  Garden, Mary, 132

  Garner, Eric, 233n21

  Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 145

  Gaunt, Kyra, 28

  Gauteng Choristers, 188

  Gauteng Opera, 53, 182

  Gaye, Marvin, 153

  gender, 9, 20, 23, 24, 87, 178, 195–96, 208; in Bizet’s Carmen, 123–25; black singers and, 34; Carmen story and, 121; opera and, 26, 211n27; race and, 56; visibility of, 14–15; genre, 171–72, 182–83; construction of, 26; From the Diary of Sally Hemings and, 69–71, 72–73; of musical, 234n29; of opera, 196, 234n29; of operetta, 234n29; text and, 170–71; Winnie: The Opera and, 168. See also femininity; masculinity; trans community

  Gershovitz, Moshe (Morris), 101, 104

  Gershwin, George, 23–24, 89, 102, 179, 225n38; An American in Paris, 89; biographical background, 87, 100; Concerto in F, 89; as first-generation Jewish immigrant, 96, 100–101, 104–5; on “folk,” 95–96; “Heav’nly Land,” 104; “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” 102, 111; “My Man’s Gone Now,” 110; “Oh Hev’nly Father,” 102; “Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way to a Heav’nly Land.,” 108; Porgy and Bess, 11, 21, 23–24, 85–119, 177–78, 180, 223n4, 223n6, 224n23, 224n27, 233n18; Rhapsody in Blue, 89; “Rhapsody in Catfish Row: Mr. Gershwin Tells the Origin and Scheme for His Music in That New Folk Opera Called Porgy and Bess,” 91, 95–96; “Summertime,” 109; as Tin Pan Alley songwriter, 89, 95; travels to Folly Island, 104, 225n41; trip to Charleston, South Carolina, 104, 225–26n41

  Gershwin, Ira, 96, 100, 101, 104–5

  The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, 88, 177, 223n4, 231–32n2, 233n18

  Gerzmava, Hibla, 3–4

  ghosts, metaphor of, 76–83

  Glass, Philip, 170, 172, 176, 177, 179, 180, 232n14

  Glenn, Roy, 135, 146

  Global North, 206

  Global South, 170, 206

  Globe Theatre, 51, 52

  Glover, Savion, 221n33

  Gobbato, Angelo, 27, 28, 39–40, 47, 49, 215n31

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 222n54

  Gomez-Preston, Reagan, 148

  Gordon-Reed, Annette, 64–65, 80, 218n1, 218n9, 219–20n21, 220n24

  Graham, Shirley, 142

  Grant, Israel, 79

  Great Depression, 85, 177

  Great Migration, 11, 85, 87–88, 100–105, 114, 139, 150, 156

  Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, 32, 33, 78, 222n61

  Grier, David Alan, 88

  Guadeloupe, 34

  Guiraud, Ernest, 122

  Gullah culture, 104

  Gustav, King, 35

  Hackney Empire, 12, 229n42

  Hailstork, Adolphus, 11, 211n21

  Halévy, Ludovic, 122, 129

  Hall, Stuart, 22

  Hamilton, 53–54, 229n42

  Hammerstein, Oscar I, 132–33

  Hammerstein, Oscar II, 132–33, 135; Carmen Jones, 121; Flower Drum Song, 132, 133; The King and I, 132, 133; Show Boat, 133; South Pacific, 132, 133

  Hammerstein, William, 132–33

  Hansberry, Lorraine, 97, 224n23

  Harlem Opera Theater, 234n25

  Harlem Renaissance, 11, 23, 85, 93, 96, 177

  Harris, Hilda, 8

  Harvey Christy Minstrels, 37

  Hayes, Eillen, 28

  Hayes, Marvin, 134, 135

  Hazlewood, Charles, 49–50

  Hemings, Beverly, 65, 77, 219–20n23, 220n24

  Hemings, Elizabeth, 59, 64, 71, 77, 219n14

  Hemings, Eston, 65, 77, 219–20n23, 220n24

  Hemings, Harriet, 65, 77, 220n23, 220n24

  Hemings, John, 59, 63t, 220n24

  Hemings, Madison, 56, 65, 77, 218n1, 220n23, 220n24

  Hemings, Sarah “Sally,” 23, 59–65, 63t, 219n20, 219–20n21, 220n24; descendants of, 56, 57–58, 80, 83, 218n1, 218n9, 220n23, 219n20, 220n24 (see also specific children); From the Diary of Sally Hemings and, 55–84; in France, 58, 63t, 73, 76, 77, 218–19n12; giving voice to, 56–59; restoration of her room, 83

  Henderson, J. W., 92, 93, 94


  Herskovits, Melville, 38, 215n28

  Herwitz, Daniel, 86

  Heyward, Dorothy, 108

  Heyward, DuBose, 23–24, 87, 96, 100, 103, 105–6, 108

  hip hop, 53, 167

  Hip H’opera, 229n42

  hip hopera, 147–56, 229n41, 229n42

  “Hip Hopera” album, 147 history: American opera and, 86; black music

  history, 27–54; colonial music history, 27; narrative of, 5–6; opera and, 27–54, 86, 173–80, 232n15; of singers, 35–36; South African, 27, 173–74, 179–80, 183

  Holiday, Anthony, 185–86

  Holiday, Billie, 97

  Holiday, John, 200, 236–37n21

  hooks, bell, 5, 169, 194

  Horne, Marilyn, 133, 135, 136

  Horsley, Paul, 72

  “Hottentot Venus,” 57

  Houston Grand Opera, 35, 85, 90

  Howard University, 34

  Hubbell, Helene Johnson, 142

  Hughes, Langston, 58, 95, 142

  Hurok, Sol, 34

  Hurricane Katrina, 14

  Hutcherson, Le Vern, 134, 135

  “hybridized African,” 41–42

  Ibali Ioo Tsoti: The Beggar’s Opera, 50

  identity, 20, 26, 131–32, 168, 176–80. See also specific identities

  IKumkanikazi yeKhephu: The Snow Queen, 50

  ilobolo ceremony, 191

  imagination, 22

  immigrants, 100–101, 104

  immigration, 85, 88, 100–105

  Impempe Yomlingo, 51

  imperialism, 7

  incarceration rates, 4, 209n7

  integrative mode, 196

  instrumentalists, 30

  integration, 46, 87, 88, 180, 196

  integrationism, 133, 150–51

  integrative mode, 196

  interdisciplinary opera studies, 6

  interpretation(s), 23, 194–95; audiences and, 21–22, 29, 208; of bodies, 29; diversity of, 22; opera and, 194–95

  interracial collaboration, 23, 53, 65–67, 168, 171, 182, 196–97

  interracial identity. See mixed-race identity

  interracial performance contexts, 8

  interracial relationships, 23, 57–65, 63t, 68–69, 78–83, 137, 220n31. See also specific people

  intertextuality, 183

  I Pagliacci, 89

  Isango Ensemble, 28, 43, 49–53, 180, 182, 233–34n24, 234n26

  isicathamiya, 167

  isiXhosa language, 173

  isiZulu language, 173

  Islamophobia, 207

  Italian opera, 29–30, 174–75

  Ives, Charles, 94

  James, Olga, 135, 145

  Jam Handy building, 203, 237n23, 237n27

  Janáček, Leoš, 175

  Janissary music, 204–5

  Jaroussky, Philippe, 200

  jazz, 35, 66, 93, 95, 101, 167

  Jefferson, Maria, 76, 77

  Jefferson, Martha (daughter of Thomas and Martha Jefferson), 76, 77

  Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton, 59, 63t, 64, 71, 76, 77

  Jefferson, Patsy, 63t

  Jefferson, Polly, 63t

  Jefferson, Randolph, 57

  Jefferson, Thomas, 23, 55–65, 63t, 68–69, 71, 73, 76–83, 84, 219–20n23, 219n21; death of, 73, 79; descendants of, 80, 83, 218n1, 218n9, 219n20, 220n23, 220n24; freeing of his slaves, 220n24; quotations from writings of, 222n59

  Jessye, Eva, 89

  Jewish immigration, 85, 104

  Jewish liturgical and secular music, 102

  Jewishness, 85, 88, 101, 105

  Jews, blacks and, 101

  Jezebel, 107, 113, 117, 212n33

  Jim Crow segregation, 5–6, 23, 52, 64, 97, 102–3, 105, 108, 119, 139, 141, 156, 177

  Joe Brown’s Band of Brothers, 37

  Johannesburg, South Africa, 25, 53

  Johnson, Francis “Frank” B., 30

  Johnson, Hall, 66, 97, 224n23

  Johnson, James Weldon, 28, 93, 94

  Johnson, John Arthur “Jack,” 143

  Johnson, J. Rosamond, 94

  Jones, Bill T., 12

  Jones, Mathilda Sissieretta Joyner, 30, 32, 33, 222n61

  Joplin, Scott, 11, 99, 226n46

  Joseph, Marc Bamuthi, 12

  Jubilee choirs, 37, 38

  “Jumping Jim Crow,” 31

  “Kafir Christy Minstrels,” 37

  Kahn, Kamal, 24, 39, 48–49

  “kaleidoscopes,” 33

  Karmen Geï, 8, 122, 127, 210n17

  Kemane, Thesele, 48

  Kendall, Yvonne, 28

  Kennedy, Randall, 218n1

  Kennedy Center, 35

  Kentridge, William, 234n30

  Kernodle, Tammy, 28

  Khayelitsha, South Africa, 51, 121t, 156–58, 159, 165, 231n56, 234n24

  Khumalo, Mzilikazi, 25, 42, 44, 172, 173, 179, 216n45

  Khumalo, Sibongile, 41, 44, 47, 49, 216n45

  Kinney, Alison, 4, 210n15

  Kleiner, Harry, 135

  klezmer, 101, 102

  Knight Foundation, 201

  Knowles, Beyoncé, 121–22, 147–48, 150, 152, 153, 157, 162, 230n49

  KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, 188

  La Bohème, 180

  La Bohème: Abanxaxhi, 51, 234n24

  Lacks, Henrietta, 110, 226n47

  language, 53. See also specific languages

  Laredo, Ruth, 14

  La Revue de Paris, 128

  La Revue des deux mondes: Journal des voyages, 121t, 122–23

  Larson, Jonathan, 180

  La Scala, 47

  Lee, Casey, 148

  León, Tania, 12

  Lester Horton Dance Theater, 141

  Lewis, George, 11

  Lewis, Henry, 137

  Lewis, Norm, 88

  LGBTQ community, 201–2, 203, 236n18, 237n24

  Lil’ Bow Wow, 148

  Lincoln Memorial, 15, 34

  Lind, Jenny, 33

  listening, racialized, 22–23

  “listening ear,” 22–23

  Little Rock, Arkansas, Central High School, 12

  Little Rock Nine, 12

  Locke, Alain, 28, 93, 94, 95, 96

  Locke, Ralph, 204–5

  Lorde, Audre, 25–26

  Los Angeles, California, 166

  Los Angeles Opera, 35

  Louis, Joe, 143

  Louis XIV, 174

  Lourde, Audre, 169

  Loving v. Virginia, 137

  Lyles, Aubrey, 66

  lynching, 97

  Mabotha, Johannes “Themba,” 184

  Madame Butterfly, 209n5

  Madame Mao, 181

  Madikizela, Columbus, 186, 191

  Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie, 10, 24, 26, 44, 46, 172–74, 179, 182, 192; attendance at Winnie: The Opera, 180–81; as “Mother of the Nation,” 192; reputation of, 185; return to Soweto, 184; statement in souvenir program booklet, 188–89; TRC and, 183, 184–85, 186–87. See also Winnie: The Opera

  Magee, Gayle Sherwood, 94

  Magic Flute: Impempe Yomlingo, 51

  Magogo kaDinuzulu, 10, 44

  Maidi, Otto, 86

  Malan, Nico, 40

  Malcolm X, 178

  Malefane, Pauline, 50, 51, 122, 159, 160

  Malibran, Maria, 213n4

  Mammy, 107

  Manca, Joseph, 36

  Mandela, Nelson, 4, 10, 179–80, 181, 190, 191, 192 The Mandela Trilogy, 179–80, 233–34n23

  Mandela United Football Club (MUFC), 184, 186

  Margaret Garner, 12, 177–78

  margin, center and, 5, 169

  Margulies, Adele, 91

  Marian Anderson Committee, 34

  Martin, Trayvon, 3, 12, 209n1, 233n21

  Martinique, 34

  masculinity, 124–25; black, 85, 112; constructions of, 107

  Mashatile, Paul, 188

  “Master’s tools,” metaphor of, 25–26

  Maswanganyi, Tsakane Valentine, 44–46, 47, 49

  Matshikiza, Pumez
a, 46–48

  Maultsby, Portia, 28

  Mbeki, Thabo, 4, 58, 59, 218n4

  Mbembe, Achille, 231n59

  McAdoo, Orpheus M., 37

  McCarten, John, 135–36

  McClary, Susan, 125, 129, 148

  McDonald, Audra, 88, 177, 221n33, 233n18

  McFerrin, Bobby, 41

  McFerrin, Robert, 90

  McKaiser, Eusebius, 214n20

  mehter, 204–5

  Meilhac, Henri, 122, 129

  Melba, Nellie, 132

  Menotti, Gian Carlo, 99

  Mérimée, Prosper, Carmen, 24, 120–24, 121t, 126, 127–32, 134, 146, 148, 152, 154, 158–59, 161, 165

  Messiaen, Olivier, 66

  Metropolitan Opera, 3–4, 7, 8, 15, 35, 47–48; Anderson’s performance at, 15–16, 35, 179; architecture of, 8; ballet, 141; black female singers at, 15–16, 19, 35, 179, 210n15; “color barriers” at, 15–16, 35, 137; Live in HD series, 2, 3; Porgy and Bess, 85; Price’s debut at in 1961, 19; Price’s performance of Cleopatra at, 16; segregation at, 15–16; staging of Otello, 209n5; use of supertitles, 210n14

  Meyers, Henry, 91

  Mhlambi, Innocentia Jabulisile, 25

  Michigan, post 9/11, 204–8

  Michigan Department of Corrections, 202

  Michigan Opera Theatre, 2, 12, 88

  Michigan Quarterly Review, 67–71, 78

  Midgette, Anne, 72

  Milhaud, Darius, 66

  Miller, Flournoy, 66

  Mills, Florence, 66

  minstrelsy, 2, 4, 23, 27–32, 38; early development of, 31–32; in Europe, 32; history of, 105; minstrel troupes, 27, 32; origin myth of, 105; popular theater in nineteenth century and, 105; in South Africa, 27, 32, 37–38, 167; specter of, 105–8; stereotypes and, 24, 31–32, 87, 97, 105, 106–8, 111–13, 119, 212n33; transgressive elements of, 213–14n7; in the United States, 31–32

  Miranda, Lin-Manuel, 53–54, 229n42

  mixed-race identity, 61, 65, 212n31, 214n20, 220n31, 232n12

  mixed-race singers, 43–44, 171

  Mngoma, Khabi, 44, 216n42

  modernism, blackness and, 21

  modernity, 22

  Moeketsi, Stompie, 184

  “monodrama,” 70, 72

  Monroe, Marilyn, 153–54, 230n46, 230n47

  Monticello, 55–56, 61, 68, 73, 77, 79, 83, 219n20, 219–20n21, 220n24

  Moore, Dorothy Rudd, 11

  Morgan, John, 184

  Morrison, Toni, 12, 145, 177–78, 228–29n37

  Mos Def (also known as Yasiin Bey), 148, 153, 163

  Mothers of the Missing, 189, 235n38, 235n40

  motion, 101

  Motlanthe, Kgalema, 4

  Move group, 12

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 39, 51, 114, 197, 201, 204–8, 222n54, 234n24

  MTV, 147–48

  Munda, Spain, 127, 128

  Murchison, Gayle, 28

  Murray, Diedre L., 88, 223n4

  Musée de l’Homme, 57

  Musée d’Orsay, 57

  musical, genre of, 234n29

 

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