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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noonan, Ellen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Temas:
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.
Musique et race.
Race à l'opéra.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire > 20e siècle.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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