This essay analyses Paul Green's use of music in his first long play In Abraham's Bosom and finds that music,especially the folk songs not only created authentic background for the story,but also strengthened ...This essay analyses Paul Green's use of music in his first long play In Abraham's Bosom and finds that music,especially the folk songs not only created authentic background for the story,but also strengthened the play's themes—black people's different attitudes toward tradition and the great difficulties for a black man to change his own and his people's fate.展开更多
文摘This essay analyses Paul Green's use of music in his first long play In Abraham's Bosom and finds that music,especially the folk songs not only created authentic background for the story,but also strengthened the play's themes—black people's different attitudes toward tradition and the great difficulties for a black man to change his own and his people's fate.