Engaged Musicology, Political Action, and Social Justice
Engaged Musicology, Political Action, and Social Justice
This chapter examines a new analytical paradigm called “Engaged Musicology” that allows for reading opera as an art form that has potential for being a site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change. It is fleshed out in two real-life situations: a cutting-edge new production of Bizet’s Carmen (a Trans Carmen in prison) and a concert version performance of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The potential of an engaged musicological practice allows old and new, standard and underrepresented narratives to be voiced in opera. Such a practice would both invite new audiences into the opera house and present traditional opera goers with new realities.
Keywords: Engaged Musicology, Trans Carmen, Prison, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, political activism, social justice
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