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New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera

Grey, Barry
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/26/porg-s26.html

Publisher:  World Socialist Web site
Date Written:  26/09/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

The very fact that the race, gender or nationality of the artist is today uncritically presented as a central issue in evaluating a work testifies to the degeneration of bourgeois thought in general and the terrible damage inflicted over many years by identity and racial politics. The use of such criteria in past periods was associated with the political right, which employed them to promote anti-democratic and racist agendas.


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