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Theatrical science --- Porgy and Bess --- musicals --- opera's (genre) --- Gershwin, George
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"Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Each of these works sought to make a statement about American identity in the form of a narrative, and each included in that narrative a prominent role for Black people.Each work included jarring or discordant elements that pointed to a deeper tension between the kind of stories Americans wish to tell about themselves and the historical and social reality of race. Although all three have been widely criticized, their efforts to connect the concepts of nation and race are not only instructive about the history of the American imagination but also provide unexpected resources for contemporary reflection"-- "Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture retrieves three "iconic" works, each of which launched an entire genre-the serious narrative film (The Birth of a Nation), the "integrated musical" (Show Boat), and American opera (Porgy and Bess), to interpret popular entertainment in the Jim Crow era. Despite their manifold differences, these radically innovative works shared two striking features: each attempted to represent the character or spirit of America in narrative form, and each included in that story a central role for the issue of race. As popular entertainment designed to appeal to audiences, these works both endorsed and helped to shape a contemporary social consensus on race that we now find grievously flawed, and each has been sharply and appropriately criticized on that account. But when read with attention to the many ways in which they seem to question, and even contradict themselves, these works appear in a very different light, not as monuments to a dishonorable past but as expressions of a conflicted and uncertain culture burdened by history but groping its way-not always with a purposeful stride, not always with clear sight, and not always in good faith-toward a present moment confident enough of its position to criticize them. By identifying the common ambition in these foundational works, Citizenship on Catfish Row enables us to see them as moments in an evolving popular understanding of American national identity. And by focusing on points of incoherence or dissonance in their telling of the national story, it suggests the impediment to national unity represented by race. Drawing attention to the ways in which popular entertainment confronted, sometimes through evasion and sometimes with a brutal honesty, the issue of race, Harpham proposes that analysis of these works can benefit our polarized and vitriolic conversation about our nation's most important problem"--
Noirs americains dans la culture populaire. --- Race au cinema. --- Race à l'opera. --- African Americans in popular culture. --- Race in motion pictures. --- Race in opera. --- African Americans in musical theater. --- Gershwin, George, --- Kern, Jerome, --- Show boat (Kern, Jerome) --- Porgy and Bess (Gershwin, George) --- Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
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Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Tender land. --- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess. --- Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917. Treemonisha. --- Opera -- United States -- 20th century. --- Operas -- Analysis, appreciation. --- Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Street scene. --- Operas --- Opera --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Instruction & Study --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Joplin, Scott, --- Weill, Kurt, --- Gershwin, George, --- Copland, Aaron, --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- History and criticism --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Heyward, DuBose, --- Heyward, Dorothy, --- Cadence --- George Gershwin --- Konstantin Stanislavski --- Kurt Weill --- Primary tone --- Tonic (music) --- Treemonisha --- Voice leading
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Culture populaire dans la littérature --- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. The Big Money --- Ecoles dans la litterature --- Education dans la litterature --- Education in literature --- Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy --- Mass media dans la littérature --- Mass media in literature --- Massamedia in de literatuur --- Opvoeding in de literatuur --- Popular culture in literature --- Primitivism in literature --- Primitivisme dans la literature --- Primitiviteit in de literatuur --- Race relations in literature --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Scholen in de literatuur --- Schools in literature --- Volkscultuur in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Collective behavior in literature. --- Education in literature. --- Mass media in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nineteen twenties. --- Popular culture in literature. --- Primitivism in literature. --- Progressive education --- Race relations in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- 1918-1945 --- Mencken, Henry Louis --- Dos Passos, John --- Wilson, Harry Leon. Merton of the Movies --- Yezierska, Anzia --- Lewisohn, Ludwig --- Progressief onderwijs
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Fishes --- Visziekten. --- Diseases --- Fish Diseases. --- Diseases. --- Poissons --- Maladies --- Fish --- Pisces --- Disease, Fish --- Diseases, Fish --- Fish Disease --- Fish diseases --- Diseases and pests --- Aquatic animals --- Vertebrates --- Fisheries --- Fishing --- Ichthyology --- Fish kills --- Fish Diseases --- fish. --- bony fishes --- finfish --- finfishes --- fishes --- ichthyofauna --- pisces --- aquatic animals --- vertebrates --- anchovies --- aquarium fish --- baitfish --- bass --- bonito --- brackish water fish --- bream --- carp --- catfish --- cod (fish) --- cold-water fish --- demersal fish --- diadromous fish --- eel --- estuarine fish --- farmed fish --- fatty fish --- fingerlings --- fish fry --- fish larvae --- flounder --- forage fish --- freshwater fish --- grouper --- haddock --- hake --- halibut --- herbivorous fish --- herring --- lean fish --- mackerel --- marine fish --- menhaden --- minnows --- mullet --- ornamental fish --- parr --- pelagic fish --- perch --- pike --- piscivorous fish --- poisonous fish --- pollock --- porgy --- potamodromous fish --- predatory fish --- rockfish --- salmon --- sardines --- shad --- sharks --- smolts --- snapper --- sole --- sturgeon --- tilapia (common name) --- tropical fish --- trout --- tuna --- turbot --- warm-water fish --- whiting --- wild fish --- aquaculture --- fish allergies --- fish behavior --- fish culture --- fish diseases --- fish industry --- fish meat --- fish mycobacteriosis --- fish patties --- fish products --- fish roe --- fish skin --- fisheries --- fishery resources --- hole in the head disease --- ichthyology --- lateral line system --- piscivores --- schools of fish --- seafoods --- young of the year --- Maladies.
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