“Show Boat”: Performing Race in an American Musical. By Todd Decker. Broadway Legacies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013; pp. xv + 309, 10 music examples, 17 illustrations. $35 cloth, $24.99 e-book. - The Strange Career of “Porgy and Bess”: Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera. By Ellen Noonan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012; pp. xiii

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“Show Boat”: Performing Race in an American Musical. By Todd Decker. Broadway Legacies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013; pp. xv + 309, 10 music examples, 17 illustrations. 39.95 e-book. - Volume 55 Issue 1