Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity
Alexander Fyfe
Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity
Alexander Fyfe
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The Story of the Western Wing, one of China's most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage girl named Oriole who begin a passionate relationship in a Chinese monastery. Performed during the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries, this musical ballad is critical to understanding Chinese vernacular and performative literature and offers a unique perspective on literary and social values in China's early modern period.
Explores Bengals political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagores music and ideas. Using critical theory and musicology, it examines his role in shaping modern Bengali identity, pluralist nationalism, and alternative pedagogy, offering music as a path to an inclusive Indian modernity
Occupying a seminal position in opera and musical theatre, Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954) stands at the vanguard of black operatic music history. One of the earliest American classical composers to infuse scores with jazz, blues, and spirituals, he inaugurated a black libretto movement that reverberates in musical culture today.
