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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
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Pages: 206
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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
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Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that’s one of onl