Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément
Although Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (1935) is still regarded by most critics as the first African-American opera, Louis Gruenberg’s The Emperor Jones (1933) and Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (1910) have recently challenged this sacrosanct position. Today, according to some researchers, Frederick Deliu...
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| description | Although Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (1935) is still regarded by most critics as the first African-American opera, Louis Gruenberg’s The Emperor Jones (1933) and Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (1910) have recently challenged this sacrosanct position. Today, according to some researchers, Frederick Delius’s Koanga, based upon the central episode of the story of “Bras coupé” in George Cable’s The Grandissimes, composed in 1897 but whose première took place in 1904, could claim to be “actually the first”. This statement obviously raises the question of the definition of an “African–American” and the attendant criteria. Through an analysis of the libretto as well as the reviews of the various performances from the late 1890’s to the early 1970’s, this article aims to assess the African-American criteria of Koanga. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-28b97f8cc9fe44e58e8be554de9914102024-02-13T14:36:47ZengPresses universitaires de RennesRevue LISA1762-61532006-06-014375110.4000/lisa.2072Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérémentBenoît DepardieuAlthough Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (1935) is still regarded by most critics as the first African-American opera, Louis Gruenberg’s The Emperor Jones (1933) and Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (1910) have recently challenged this sacrosanct position. Today, according to some researchers, Frederick Delius’s Koanga, based upon the central episode of the story of “Bras coupé” in George Cable’s The Grandissimes, composed in 1897 but whose première took place in 1904, could claim to be “actually the first”. This statement obviously raises the question of the definition of an “African–American” and the attendant criteria. Through an analysis of the libretto as well as the reviews of the various performances from the late 1890’s to the early 1970’s, this article aims to assess the African-American criteria of Koanga.https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/2072KoangaAfrican American operaDelius Frederick |
| spellingShingle | Benoît Depardieu Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément Revue LISA Koanga African American opera Delius Frederick |
| title | Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément |
| title_full | Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément |
| title_fullStr | Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément |
| title_full_unstemmed | Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément |
| title_short | Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément |
| title_sort | koanga de frederick delius cherche premier opera afro americain desesperement |
| topic | Koanga African American opera Delius Frederick |
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