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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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Основен автор: Noonan, Ellen.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Предмети:
Gershwin, George, > 1898-1937. > Porgy and Bess.
Heyward, DuBose, > 1885-1940. > 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.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations.
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess.
Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy and Bess.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Opera & Classical Scores.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
African Americans in popular culture.
Race relations.
South Carolina > Charleston.
Electronic books.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=509032
Съдържание:
  • A romance of Negro life : Porgy, 1925
  • Interlude : Charleston, 1680-1900
  • A chocolate-covered lithograph strip : Porgy, 1927
  • Interlude : Charleston, 1920 -1940
  • Gershwin's idea of what a Negro opera should be : Porgy and Bess, 1935
  • Neither the measure of America nor that of the Negro : Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956
  • Interlude : Charleston, 1940-1960
  • Forget any version you may have seen before : Porgy and Bess, 1959-2012
  • Epilogue : Charleston, 1970-2005.

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