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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Romancing the Gullah in the age of Porgy and Bess / by Hamilton, Kendra Y.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Five: What Miss Ann Saw : The Imperial Eyes of Charleston Renaissance Painting -- Chapter Six: All God's Chillen Got Traveling Shoes: Modern Subjects, Florida Roots, Diasporic Routes -- Chapter Seven: Plenty o' Nothin: Spectacular Blackness and Global Miscegenation in Porgy and Bess -- Afterword: South of Tomorrow -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index…”
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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.…”

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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On the performance front : US theatre and internationalism / by Canning, Charlotte, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…ITI : tomorrow's theatre today -- 6. Onstage III : Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956 -- Conclusion.…”

Letter to my daughter / by Angelou, Maya

Table of Contents: “…Home -- Philanthropy -- Revelations -- Giving birth -- Accident, coincident, or answered prayer -- To tell the truth -- Vulgarity -- Violence -- Mother's long view -- Morocco -- Porgy and Bess -- Bob & Decca -- Celia Cruz -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Senegal -- The eternal silver screen -- In self-defense -- Mrs. …”

Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / by Dickstein, Morris

Table of Contents: “…The populist turn : Copland and the popular front ; Who cares? : the world of Porgy and Bess ; The People vs. Frank Capra : populism against itself ; Shakespeare in overalls : an American troubadour ; Gender trouble : exposing the intellectuals ; Conclusion : the work of culture in Depression America.…”

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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The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945 : Propaganda, Myth and Reality /

Table of Contents: “…Karnes 13 The music of Čiurlionis in the context of resistance and Lithuanian national identity during the Nazi occupation (1941-1944) Vytautė Markeliūnienė14 Power through music: strategies of the German occupation authorities in Estonia Kristel Pappel and Anu KolarSection 5 The limits of tolerance 15 Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism: the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943 Michael Fjeldsoe16 Music criticism in the Swedish Nazi daily press: the case of Dagsposten Henrik RosengrenSection 6 Damaged careers 17 (Re)visiting the (Jewish) archive of Gideon Klein -- Terezin, 1941-1944 David Fligg18 Eugeniusz Morawski: life under the Nazi occupation of Warsaw Oskar ŁapetaSection 7 Symphonies of war and resistance 19 Religious patriotism and grotesque ridicule: responses to Nazi oppression in Pavel Haas's unfinished war-time Symphony Martin Čurda20 Paul von Klenau's Ninth Symphony: a case study Niels Krabbe21 Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony: music of endurance David Fanning and Michelle AssaySection 8 Complex and uneasy legacies 22 Listening in the Grey Zone Michael Beckerman23 The marketing of backstories: approaches to the legacies of music composed in fraught circumstances Mirjam Frank24 Nazism, music and Tyrolean identity Kurt Drexel25 Bartok against the Nazis: the Italian premieres of Bluebeard's Castle (1938) and The Miraculous Mandarin (1942) Nicolo Palazzetti26 Contemporary music and cultural politics in Switzerland during World War II: between neutrality and nationalism Simeon Thompson…”
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