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Porgy And Bess
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symbolizes the end of the black musical tradition that
flourished in the early part of this century. The play showed the height of
white appropriation of what had previously been a black cultural form. All
the creative talent backstage was white. This development had been
occurring slowly, through ....
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....of an opera with a black cast and created by
black talent was a rarity, it was not unprecedented. Bob Cole had spoken
about an opera based on Uncle Tom's Cabi, but the work remained uncompleted
at his death. Scott Joplin had written an opera, "A guest of Honor", while
living in St. Louis in 1903. The opera had several performances in Missouri,
but did go beyond the state's borders.
Joplin's second opera, "Treemonisha", composed between 1905 and 1907,
seemed more promising, Joplin died never.... |
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