“Cuban Zarzuela” author wins award

Cover for Thomas: Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage. Click for larger imageThe International Alliance for Women in Music recently recognized Susan Thomas, author of Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage, with the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music.

From IAWM’s press release:

“In this model study, Thomas examines… a popular music theatre genre in Havana in the 1920s and 1930s as the response of composers, librettists, and impresarios to increasingly female audiences and to such general forces as urbanization and nationalism. Zarzuela conventions that develop during the early twentieth century continue at least until the 1959 revolution and reveal enduring class, racial, and sexual stereotypes, conflicts, and efforts toward resolution. The book is a strong contribution to music theatre scholarship, gender studies and Cuban history.”


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