The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Author: Ellen Noonan
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0807837164


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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.


The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Language: en
Pages: 441
Authors: Ellen Noonan
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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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 s
Porgy
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: DuBose Heyward
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1925 - Publisher: Bibliotech Press

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Basis for light opera Porgy and Bess. Story of crippled Negro beggar and his friends and enemies in Charleston, S.C.
Porgy
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Dorothy Heyward
Categories: African American men
Type: BOOK - Published: 1927 - Publisher:

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Porgy
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Dorothy Heyward
Categories: African American men
Type: BOOK - Published: 1928 - Publisher:

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The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Ellen Noonan
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-10 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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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