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From plantation to paradise? :cultural politics and musical theatre in French slave colonies, 1764-1789
- 作者: Powers, David M.
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- 稽核項: xiv, 256 pages :illustrations ;26 cm.
- 標題: Social life and customs , West Indies, French Social life and customs -- 18th century. , Theater and society West Indies, French -- History -- 18th century. , West Indies, French , Musical theater , Theater and society , Theater and society France -- History -- 18th century. , Musical theater West Indies, French -- History -- 18th century. , History
- ISBN: 1611861209 , 9781611861204
- ISBN: 9781609174101 (ebook)
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界 Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-251) and index.
- 系統號: 005257897
- 資料類型: 圖書
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In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negative and positive contributions of the Catholic Church and the military to operas and concerts produced in the colonies. The author also explores the level of participation of nonwhites in these productions, as well as theatre architecture, décor, repertoire, seating arrangements, and types of audiences. The status of nonwhite artists in colonial society; the range of operas in which they performed; their accomplishments, praise, criticism; and the use of créole texts and white actors/singers à visage noirs (with blackened faces) present a clear picture of French operatic culture in these colonies. Approaching the French Revolution, the study concludes with an examination of the ways in which colonial opera was affected by slave uprisings, the French Revolution, the emergence of “patriotic theatres,” and their role in fostering support for the king, as well as the impact on subsequent operas produced in the colonies and in the United States.
來源: Google Book
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