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Benjamin Wulf IFA Jerome Stanley Porgy and Bess Reaction Before Gershwin's opera, Porgy and Bess, the interaction between blacks and whites was always controversial. With the opening of Porgy and Bess, inequalities where put onto the stage for everyone to see, forever changing the opera community, transforming the audience and reinventing what opera is and what opera should be. Gershwin's opera was an invasion of the white-dominated theatrical world. Whether the white theater goers liked it or not, they were going to have to view the individual and race wide struggles of African-American men and women in a three hour opera. Porgy and Bess symbolizes something that is very much real. It shows things in society that people did not want to acknowledge were there and it spawned an entire cultural awareness, leaving a vivid memory of injustice and inequality. The idea of an opera being dominated by blacks was unimaginable at the time....

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