Hilde Roos, The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid
Musical performance can rarely be divorced from the political situation or cultural context in which it finds itself. There are, of course, countless occasions where musical performance has been wielded as if a political tool; a vehicle intended to help establish group identities and carry messages...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Transposition
2021
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Musical performance can rarely be divorced from the political situation or cultural context in which it finds itself. There are, of course, countless occasions where musical performance has been wielded as if a political tool; a vehicle intended to help establish group identities and carry messages from the people to those in power. Political institutions throughout the ages have taken similar advantage of music’s power to unite, convince, and propagate ideas by controlling state-sanctioned ... |
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