Abstract
Shirley Graham, prior to her 1951 marriage to W.E.B. Du Bois, had an extended career as a composer, playwright, and biographer. From the late 1920s she struggled as a single parent with two young boys, and did her best to disassemble the fact of her divorce to ensure her respectability. At the highlight of her career her opera Tom-Tom premiered at the Cleveland Opera Festival in the Summer of 1932. Ten thousand people attended the opening night performance. The opera was a sensation and critically acclaimed. The article offers a critical reading of the opera, and a sympathetic accounting of her struggle for autonomy, respectability, and a radical political and intellectual legacy.
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