Colonialism · Historical & Epic · Music & Musicals · Myth and Archetype · Native Americans · Westerns
Horse Operas and Real Operas: Melodramatic Reflections and Refutations of the Turner Thesis
The handful of “frontier operas” we’ll consider therefore propose an unusual dialectic of both aesthetics and ideology. What might occur when male Western heroes – traditionally stoic and pragmatic –[…]
