Keeping track of all your research can be difficult. Here's a few tips to help you stay on top of things:
Sheppard 2019 |
Lancefield 2005 |
Tsou 2014 |
Tsou 1997 |
Book that explores representations of Japan "in the American musical imagination." Chapter 2 talks about Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. |
Dissertation about how Asian cultural and gender stereotypes appeared in American music between 1900-1930. Discusses the terms "yellowface" and "yellowvoice," which would be helpful for me to include in the section of my paper about white singers portraying non-white characters. |
Book chapter (from this book) that analyzes the character's melodies in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The author argues that differences in tonality are used to represent racial differences. I hadn't thought of this element before -- that racism in opera is more than just the costumes and stories. |
Journal article that talks about stereotypes of Chinese Americans in sheet music in the early 1900s. I have two articles by Tsou now -- I should look into her more since it seems like she might be an expert in this area. |