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DuBose Heyward

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Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. [1]

44 relations: American Society of African Culture, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Brass Ankles, Broadway theatre, Catfish Row, Charleston, South Carolina, Dorothy Heyward, Eudaimonia, Eugene O'Neill, George Gershwin, Gullah, Ira Gershwin, Jazbo Brown, Langston Hughes, MacDowell Colony, Mamba's Daughters, Multiracial, Musical theatre, Myocardial infarction, Playwright, Pleurisy, Poet, Poetry, Poliomyelitis, Porgy (novel), Porgy (play), Porgy and Bess, Porgy and Bess (film), Porter-Gaud School, Recitative, Saint Croix, South Carolina, South Carolina literature, Southern United States literature, Stephen Sondheim, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, The Emperor Jones, The Emperor Jones (1933 film), The My Hero Project, Thomas Heyward Jr., Tragic mulatto, Tryon, North Carolina, Typhoid fever, United States Declaration of Independence.

American Society of African Culture

The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was an organization of African-American writers, artists, and scholars.

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

The company Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (note the plural) was formed in 1932 after the death of Diaghilev and the demise of Ballets Russes.

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Brass Ankles

The Brass Ankles of South Carolina were a "tri-racial isolate" group, as defined by anthropologists, that developed in the colonial era.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Catfish Row

Catfish Row, originally titled Suite from Porgy and Bess, is an orchestral work by George Gershwin based upon music from his famous opera Porgy and Bess.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Dorothy Heyward

Dorothy Heyward née Kuhns, (June 6, 1890 – November 19, 1961) was an American playwright.

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Eudaimonia

Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία), sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia, is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare; however, "human flourishing or prosperity" has been proposed as a more accurate translation.

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Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Gullah

The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina, in both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands (including urban Savannah and Charleston).

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

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Jazbo Brown

Jazbo Brown was, according to legend, a black delta blues musician from around the turn of the 20th century.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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MacDowell Colony

The MacDowell Colony is an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell.

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Mamba's Daughters

Mamba's Daughters is a 1929 book authored by DuBose Heyward and published by the University of South Carolina Press.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Pleurisy

Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is inflammation of the membranes that surround the lungs and line the chest cavity (pleurae).

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Porgy (novel)

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925.

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Porgy (play)

Porgy: A Play in Four Acts is a play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, adapted from the short novel by DuBose Heyward.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Porgy and Bess (film)

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger.

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Porter-Gaud School

The Porter-Gaud School is an independent coeducational college preparatory day school in Charleston, in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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Recitative

Recitative (also known by its Italian name "recitativo") is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech.

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Saint Croix

Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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South Carolina literature

The literature of South Carolina, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Southern United States literature

Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes is a 1939 children's picture book written by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Marjorie Flack.

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The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.

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The Emperor Jones (1933 film)

The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same title, was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with private money from neophyte wealthy producers, and directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, who had sought O'Neill's permission to film the play since its 1924 production in New York.

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The My Hero Project

The My Hero Project is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization established in 1995 by philanthropist Karen Pritzker, Jeanne Meyers and Rita Stern Milch that identifies positive role models from around the world for the online digital storytelling project.

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Thomas Heyward Jr.

Thomas Heyward Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

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Tragic mulatto

The tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries, from the 1840s.

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Tryon, North Carolina

Tryon is a town in Polk County, North Carolina, United States.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBose_Heyward

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