The strange career of Porgy and Bess race, culture, and America's most famous opera /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.