General Info | TEI
| Titel | Sprung über den Schatten |
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| Labels | |
| ID | 8765 |
| Type | opera |
| Date | 1924 |
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| Uri(s) |
https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8765/ |
| Notes | This was one of the first European operas that included jazz elements, such as the banjo and xylophone. However, this opera, similar to Jonny spielt auf, contains racist and sexist depictions of Blackness in the character of an exoticised Black dancer. |
| References | Krick-Aigner, Kirsten. "An Examination of Jazz and Identity and Blackness in Ernst Krenek’s 1927 Opera Jonny spielt auf and Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer’s 1928 Still Life Jonny spielt auf." Polarization in the North Atlantic Triangle. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2023. See also Fincha, Wolfgang. “Die Überfahrt Beginnt”: Schwarze Körper und Amerikanismus in Ernst Kreneks Zeitoper Jonny spielt auf.” Leibhaftige Moderne. Körper in Kunst und Massenmedien 1918 bis 1933. Eds. Michael Cowan and Kai Marcel Sicks. Transcript Verlag, 2005. |
Relations
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
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| 1924 | — | related >> composed by | Krenek, Ernst |
