The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess Race Culture and America’s Most Famous Opera 1st Edition by Ellen Noonan ISBN 1469617536
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ISBN 10: 1469617536
Author: Ellen Noonan
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. In this comprehensive account, 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. In its surprising endurance lies a myriad of local, national, and international stories.
For black performers and commentators, Porgy and Bess was a nexus for debates about cultural representation and racial uplift. White producers, critics, and even audiences spun revealing racial narratives around the show, initially in an attempt to demonstrate its authenticity and later to keep it from becoming discredited or irrelevant. 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.
Table of contents:
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 A Romance of Negro Life: Porgy, 1925 13
Interlude. Charleston, 1680-1900 53
Chapter 2 A Chocolate-Covered Lithograph Strip: Porgy, 1927 73
Interlude. Charleston, 1920-1940 125
Chapter 3 Gershwin’s Idea of What a Negro Opera Should Be: Porgy and Bess, 1935 143
Chapter 4 Neither the Measure of America nor That of the Negro: Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956 185
Interlude. Charleston, 1940-1969 235
Chapter 5 Forget Any Version You May Have Seen Before: Porgy and Bess, 1959-2012 259
Epilogue. Charleston, 1970-2005 305
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