Strange Career of Porgy and Bess : Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera. by Noonan, Ellen

Table of 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.…”
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Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Great musicals of the American theatre /

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The Cambridge companion to Gershwin /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring new worlds : An American in Paris, Cuban overture and Porgy and Bess /…”

Stars for freedom : Hollywood, Black celebrities, and the civil rights movement / by Raymond, Emilie, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Cleaning up Catfish Row: Black celebrity and the making of Porgy and Bess -- Sammy Davis, Jr.: daring, deferential, and "money" -- Harry Belafonte and the northern liberal network -- The arts group and the March on Washington -- Dick Gregory and celebrity grassroots activism -- Stars for Selma -- Celebrities and Black power.…”
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The cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 /

Table of Contents: “…Goldstein -- 'He is a cripple an' needs my love' : Porgy and Bess as Cold War propaganda / David Monod.…”
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The book of Broadway : the 150 definitive plays and musicals / by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…-- On the town -- Our town -- Pal Joey -- The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade -- Peter pan (play) -- The phantom of the opera -- The Philadelphia story -- Picnic -- Pippin -- The pirates of Penzance -- The playboy of the western world -- Porgy and Bess -- Private lives -- The producers -- Promises, promises -- Pygmalion -- Ragtime -- A raisin in the sun -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- 1776 -- She loves me -- Show boat -- The show-off -- Shuffle along -- Six degrees of separation -- The skin of our teeth -- Sleuth -- The sound of music -- South Pacific -- Spring awakening -- A streetcar named desire -- The student prince in Heidelberg -- Sweeney Todd -- The time of your life -- Tobacco road -- Torch song triology -- A trip to Chinatown -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Very good Eddie -- Waiting for Godot -- Waiting for Lefty -- Watch your step -- West Side story -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? …”
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Literary sisters : Dorothy West and her circle : a biography of the Harlem Renaissance / by Mitchell, Verner D., 1957-

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Charleston and the Great Depression : a documentary history, 1929-1941 /

Table of Contents: “…Roosevelt, 27 September 1935; DuBose Heyward, "Porgy and Bess Return on Wings of Song," October 1935; Elijah J. …”
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The Book of Broadway / by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Pal joeythe persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of charenton under the direction of the marquis de sade; peter pan (play); peter pan (musical); the phantom of the opera; the philadelphia story; picnic; pippin; the pirates of penzance; the playboy of the western world; porgy and bess; private lives; the producers; promises, promises; pygmalion; ragtime; a raisin in the sun; rent; rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead; 1776; she loves me; show boat; the show-off; shuffle along; six degrees of separation; the skin of our teeth; sleuth.…”
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