TY  - BOOK
AU  - Noonan,Ellen
TI  - Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera
SN  - 9780807837337
AV  - ML410 .S773 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Gershwin, George,
KW  - Heyward, DuBose,
KW  - Music and race
KW  - Race in opera
KW  - African Americans in popular culture
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Charleston (S.C.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess
KW  - Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy and Bess
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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