Strange Career of Porgy and Bess : Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera.

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectat...

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Main Author:	Noonan, Ellen
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Gershwin, George, > 1898-1937. > Porgy and Bess. Heyward, DuBose, > 1885-1940. > Porgy and Bess. Heyward, DuBose, > 1885-1940. > Porgy. Gershwin, George > 1898-1937 > Porgy and Bess Porgy and Bess (Gershwin, George) Porgy and Bess (Heyward, DuBose) 1900-1999 Music and race. Race in opera. African Americans in popular culture > 20th century. MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera. MUSIC > Printed Music > Opera & Classical Scores. PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism. African Americans in popular culture Music and race Race in opera Race relations Ethnische Identität Rasrelationer i operan. Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations. South Carolina > Charleston USA History
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