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Title:
Strange Career of Porgy and Bess : Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera.
Author:
Noonan, Ellen.
ISBN:
9780807837337

9781469600253
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (440 pages)
Abstract:
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 expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality. Expertly weaving together the wide-ranging debates over the original novel, Porgy, and its adaptations on stage and film with a history of its intimate ties to Charleston, The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess uncovers the complexities behind one of.
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