Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera

Lucy Caplan Explores Black Opera In The First Of The Twentieth Century, Before The Golden Age Inaugurated By Marian Anderson. Early Black Opera Was Decidedly Countercultural, Fostering Aesthetic Innovation And Antiracist Activism, As Artists Found In Opera's Grandeur Resources For Expressing The Complexity Of Black Life And Diasporic Experience.-- Provided By Publisher.