The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9780807837160
ISBN-13 : 0807837164
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Book Synopsis The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess by : Ellen Noonan

Download or read book The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess written by Ellen Noonan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the opera Porgy and Bess's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of 20th-century American expectations about race, culture and the struggle for equality.


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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