Daphne A. Brooks: “Kitchen Insurrections: Porgy & Bess, Mamba’s Daughters & the End of an Era/Error”
6:30 p.m.
This talk reveals how Black women musicians’ aesthetic are the driving force of Gershwin and Heyward’s Porgy and Bess (1935) and Heyward’s lesser-known Mamba’s Daughters (1939).