The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race
On January 7, 1933, two years before Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Emperor Jones, composed by Louis Gruenberg in 1931, had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. Although Gruenberg’s opera looks like a mere musical adaptation of O’Neill’s acclaimed play, first performed in 1920,...
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2004-05-01
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| description | On January 7, 1933, two years before Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Emperor Jones, composed by Louis Gruenberg in 1931, had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. Although Gruenberg’s opera looks like a mere musical adaptation of O’Neill’s acclaimed play, first performed in 1920, some alterations made by the composer allow to question its ambivalent reception by the audience and the critics. Apart from the singular choice of O’Neill’s play and Gruenberg’s special interest in African American music and vocal traditions, this paper analyses the influence of the Harlem Renaissance period and the fantasmatics of race, present in both the play and the opera, albeit exacerbated in the latter through the scopic enjoyment of the body of the black Other. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d3c69ec166d427cb0f36689dc5c90b82024-02-13T14:34:55ZengPresses universitaires de RennesRevue LISA1762-61532004-05-01211212510.4000/lisa.2964The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre raceBenoît DepardieuOn January 7, 1933, two years before Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Emperor Jones, composed by Louis Gruenberg in 1931, had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. Although Gruenberg’s opera looks like a mere musical adaptation of O’Neill’s acclaimed play, first performed in 1920, some alterations made by the composer allow to question its ambivalent reception by the audience and the critics. Apart from the singular choice of O’Neill’s play and Gruenberg’s special interest in African American music and vocal traditions, this paper analyses the influence of the Harlem Renaissance period and the fantasmatics of race, present in both the play and the opera, albeit exacerbated in the latter through the scopic enjoyment of the body of the black Other.https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/2964 |
| spellingShingle | Benoît Depardieu The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race Revue LISA |
| title | The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race |
| title_full | The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race |
| title_short | The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race |
| title_sort | emperor jones de louis gruenberg le long voyage au coeur corps de l autre race |
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