The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess : Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera.
Başlık:
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess : Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera.
Yazar:
Noonan, Ellen.
ISBN:
9780807837337
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (358 pages)
İçerik:
Cover Page -- The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Romance of Negro Life -- INTERLUDE Charleston, 1680-1900 -- 2 A Chocolate-Covered Lithograph Strip -- INTERLUDE Charleston, 1920-1940 -- 3 Gershwin's Idea of What a Negro Opera Should Be -- 4 Neither the Measure of America nor That of the Negro -- INTERLUDE Charleston, 1940-1969 -- 5 Forget Any Version You May Have Seen Before -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
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 our nation's most long-lived cultural touchstones.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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