Summertime, and the living is easy/Fish are jumpin'/An the cotton is high/Oh yo' daddy's rich/And ya ma is good lookin'/So hush....
Summertime, from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess- a quintessentially American work- has always touched me on many levels and I have longed to perform alongside many of its many iterations. Here is one of my favorite renditions, by Mahalia Jackson. Here I interpret the lyrics to show my contempt for modern consumerism. The prettiness of the consumer life often masks the self-hate of using money to buy happiness. Shop-till-You-Drop dead, shame and life. Or not.
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