Reconsidering Cole Porter
Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family's dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff. Reversing the usual American ascent from labor to leisure makes for a more strenuous, and more moving, story. The labor produced a new kind of American lyric, […]
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