Title The strange career of Porgy and Bess : race, culture, and America's most famous opera / Ellen Noonan.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
	©2012

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	ML410 .G288 N66 2012	Available	---
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML410.G323 N66	Available	---

Description	xiii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A romance of Negro life : Porgy, 1925 -- Interlude : Charleston, 1680-1900 -- A chocolate-covered lithograph strip : Porgy, 1927 -- Interlude : Charleston, 1920 -1940 -- Gershwin's idea of what a Negro opera should be : Porgy and Bess, 1935 -- Neither the measure of America nor that of the Negro : Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956 -- Interlude : Charleston, 1940-1960 -- Forget any version you may have seen before : Porgy and Bess, 1959-2012 -- Epilogue : Charleston, 1970-2005.
Subject	Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess.
	Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy and Bess.
	Music and race.
	Music and race.
	Race in opera.
	Race in opera.
	African Americans in popular culture -- 20th century.
	African Americans in popular culture.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations.
ISBN	9780807837160 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
	0807837164 (cloth) (alkaline paper)