Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: representing blackness on the operatic stage -- From Otello to Porgy: blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera / Naomi Andr�e -- Hearing the other in The masque of blackness / Sarah Schmalenberger -- Nationalism, racial difference, and "Egyptian" meaning in Verdi's Aida / Christopher R. Gauthier and Jennifer McFarlane-Harris -- Race, "realism," and fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga / Eric Saylor -- Political currents and black culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha / Ann Sears -- Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! in the world of the Harlem Renaissance / Karen M. Bryan -- New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison -- Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown -- Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf -- The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd -- Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. Wipplinger -- Il rodolfo nero, or the masque of blackness / George Shirley.

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