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Porgy & Bess, a Charleston story, edited by Harlan Greene

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non fiction

Porgy & Bess

edited by Harlan Greene

a Charleston story

"The opera Porgy and Bess has been acclaimed throughout the world, but it has always been, at heart, a story of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston was the home of Samuel Smalls, the model for the character Porgy, and DuBose Heyward, who wrote the novel Porgy, co-wrote the Broadway play, and collaborated on the opera with George and Ira Gershwin. Charleston was the inspiration for the music, the sets, and the relationships that have thrilled audiences since 1935. Now, led by Porgy and Bess scholar Harlan Greene, many aspects of the book, play, and opera and their roots in Lowcountry South Carolina are explored by local and national experts."--Page [4] of cover

Introduction / Nigel Redden -- "An always thing": Charleston and Porgy and Bess / Harlan Greene -- Samuel Smalls: the man who inspired Porgy / Damon L. Fordham -- Picturing Porgy / Harlan Greene -- Prelude to Gershwin: Edmund Thornton Jenkins / Karen A. Chandler -- Porgy and prejudice: a work of art's controversial history / Harlan Greene -- Beyond Catfish Row: the art of Porgy and Bess / Pamela S. Wall -- A new Porgy and Bess for Charleston / Jennifer Scott -- Director's notes / David Herskovits