Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Distinguished Lecture in Musicology
Porgy and Bess Against the Grain: New Approaches to a Confounding American Opera
Mark Clague (University of Michigan), chair
Kai West (University of Michigan), “‘I Reckon You’ve Seen a Dead Body Before’: Symbolic Violence and Musical Resistance in Porgy and Bess”
Lenora Green-Turner (University of Michigan), “Gullah Diction: Diction for Performances of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess”
Jake Arthur (University of Michigan), “It Ain’t Necessarily European: Elements of American Popular Song in Porgy and Bess”
Lena Leson (University of Michigan), “‘I’m On My Way to a Heav’nly Lan’: Porgy and Bess and American Religious Export to the USSR”
Kai West (University of Michigan), “‘I Reckon You’ve Seen a Dead Body Before’: Symbolic Violence and Musical Resistance in Porgy and Bess”
Lenora Green-Turner (University of Michigan), “Gullah Diction: Diction for Performances of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess”
Jake Arthur (University of Michigan), “It Ain’t Necessarily European: Elements of American Popular Song in Porgy and Bess”
Lena Leson (University of Michigan), “‘I’m On My Way to a Heav’nly Lan’: Porgy and Bess and American Religious Export to the USSR”
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