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SUMMARY:Charting ‘Black Opera’
DESCRIPTION:What is Black? What is Opera? When does something qualify as ‘Black Opera’? In the second of its series of inaugural panels, BORN grapples with the parameters of its own terms of reference. Taking as a starting point the ‘Black Opera Database’ created by BORN affiliates Allison Lewis and Nicholas Newton, the conversation interrogates the politics of racial categorization and generic classification. We ask what institutional integration might mean for works of art that resist prevailing taxonomies of opera and Blackness. Finally, panellists ask if it is possible to circumscribe the field of ‘Black opera’ without allowing practitioners or their works to be co-opted into a politics of inequality and/or exclusion.\nTalking points include:\n\ndiverse demarcations of Blackness in different times and places\nworks of art as ciphers for racialized expectations\noperatic Blackness as ‘vernacular’ or ‘folk’ construct\nopera and its generic others\nwhat should or shouldn’t be included in a database of ‘Black’ operas?\nthe potential co-option of Black opera as an antidote to white liberal guilt\n\n \nModerator\nNaomi André (USA)\nPanelists \n\nGenevieve Arkle (UK)\nMandla Langa (South Africa)\nAllison Lewis (USA)\n\n \nRead an interview with Allison Lewis and Nicholas Newton on the development of the Black Opera Database here ( https://www.blackoperaresearch.net/forum/2021/05/04/genealogies-of-black-creativity/#more-52 ).\nThis event was recorded. Watch a video on vimeo:\n\n
URL:https://blackoperaresearch.net/events/charting-black-opera/
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