Wednesday, April 17t, 5:30 PM:
106 Stoeckel Hall
Daphne A. Brooks, “Rhapsody and Ruin: Porgy and Bess, Cultural Domination and the Story of America”
In this lecture, Daphne A. Brooks, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and Music, mines the archive in order to trace the legacy of racial performance and racial and gender violence made manifest in 1935’s Porgy and Bess. It moves from an exploration of the Heyward and Gershwin archives to a consideration of the genius Black women culture workers who’ve grappled with the opera’s legacy.