AFRO-BRAZILIAN OPERA SINGERS: A REFLECTION ABOUT THE ABSENCE OF BLACK LYRIC SINGERS IN THE HISTORY BOOKS OF BRAZILIAN MUSIC OF THE XIX CENTURY
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This article proposes to investigate the participation of black lyric singers in the Brazilian theaters in the late eighteenth century and during the first half of the 19th century, in order to understand the invisibilization of these women in the History of Music in Brazil. Singing opera at that time and practicing music in general was almost always an obligation that blacks had to perform, and not, most of the time, an activity of pleasure and glamor. Therefore, writing about Brazilian music and not referring to these women means making them invisible. Thus, we believe that is necessary to rethink and rewrite a history of music in the perspective of anti-racism, anti-machismo and anti-classism, in order that the plurality of gender, class and ethnic-racial, which forms a Brazilian society, could be represented.
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