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KEYNOTE: Jazz/Opera and the Staging of Race

Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon

Published: 2008-09-04

VIDEO: While examining the presence of improvisatory practices in opera over the course of history, the Hutcheons discuss the ongoing hybridization of opera with other art forms, and how racial identities have been represented in opera. TEXT: An abstract and biographies for the speakers.

Key Subjects

race, performativity, diaspora

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...the innovative working models of improvisation developed by creative practitioners have helped to promote a dynamic exchange of cultural forms, and to encourage new, socially responsive forms of community building across national, cultural, and artistic boundaries.

– Ajay Heble