The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera

• Author(s): Ellen Noonan,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 423
• ISBN_10: 0807837164
  ISBN_13: 9780807837160
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism , Music / Genres & Styles / Opera , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies ,

Description:... 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 i