Citizenship on Catfish Row : race and nation in American popular culture / Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

"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 entertai...

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Main Author:	Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]
Subjects:	African Americans in musical theater. Race in opera. Race in motion pictures. African Americans in popular culture. Kern, Jerome, > 1885-1945. > Show boat. Gershwin, George, > 1898-1937. > Porgy and Bess. Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) Porgy and Bess (Gershwin, George) Show boat (Kern, Jerome)
Physical Description:	174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format:	Book