Black Opera

Naomi André is an associate professor in the departments of African and Afroamerican Studies and Women's Studies. She also is associate director in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera and coeditor of Blackness in Opera.

• TitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1Engaged Opera2Black Opera across the Atlantic: Writing Black Music History and Opera's Unusual Place3Haunted Legacies: Interracial Secrets From the Diary of Sally Hemings4Contextualizing Race and Gender in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess5Carmen: From Nineteenth-Century France to Settings in the United States and South Africa in the6Winnie, Opera, and South African Artistic NationhoodConclusion: Engaged Musicology, Political Action, and Social JusticeNotesBibliographyIndex

Irving Lowens Book Award, 2020Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, 2020— Irving Lowens Book Award, the Society for American MusicIrving Lowens Book Award, 2020Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, 2020— American Musicology Society (AMS)