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_b.S773 2012
049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aNoonan, Ellen.
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245 1 0 _aStrange Career of Porgy and Bess :
_bRace, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera.
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260 _aChapel Hill :
_bThe University of North Carolina Press,
_c(c)2012.
300 _a1 online resource (440 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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520 0 _aCreated 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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505 0 0 _aA romance of Negro life : Porgy, 1925 --
_tInterlude : Charleston, 1680-1900 --
_tA chocolate-covered lithograph strip : Porgy, 1927 --
_tInterlude : Charleston, 1920 -1940 --
_tGershwin's idea of what a Negro opera should be : Porgy and Bess, 1935 --
_tNeither the measure of America nor that of the Negro : Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956 --
_tInterlude : Charleston, 1940-1960 --
_tForget any version you may have seen before : Porgy and Bess, 1959-2012 --
_tEpilogue : Charleston, 1970-2005.
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600 1 0 _aGershwin, George,
_d1898-1937 --
600 1 0 _aHeyward, DuBose,
_d1885-1940 --
650 0 _aMusic and race.
650 0 _aRace in opera.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in popular culture
_y20th century.
650 4 _aAfrican Americans in popular culture
_y20th century.
650 4 _aCharleston (S.C.)
_xRace relations.
650 4 _aGershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess.
650 4 _aHeyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy and Bess.
650 4 _aMusic and race.
650 4 _aRace in opera.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=509032&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_dCynthia Snell