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Gershwin described Porgy and Bess as an 'American Folk Opera'. In that sense, it could perhaps be regarded as something of the American equivalent to singspiel. Ultimately however I think Gershwin's output is immensely difficult to categorise as a whole given that it catered for several distinct audiences; some is unequivocably classical, some unequivocably Broadway. Most is somewhere in limbo between the two.
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