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Hoffman Warren <1976-> |
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Titolo |
The Great White Way : Race and the Broadway Musical / / Warren Hoffman |
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Piscataway : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations, music |
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Race in musical theater - History - Social aspects - 20th century - United States |
Music and race - History - Social aspects - 21st century - United States |
Musical theater - History - Political aspects - 20th century - United States |
Musical theater - Political aspects - History - 21st century - United States |
Musical theater |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Overture: All Singin'! All Dancin'! All White People?; Act One: 1927- 1957; 1. Only Make Believe: Performing Race in Show Boat; 2. Playing Cowboys and Indians: Forging Whitenessin Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun; 3. Trouble in New York City: The Racial Politicsof West Side Story and The Music Man; Act Two: 1967- 2012; 4. Carbon Copies: Black and InterracialProductions of White Musicals; 5. A Chorus Line: The Benetton of Broadway Musicals; 6. Everything Old Is New Again: Nostalgia and the Broadway Musical at the End of the Twentieth Century |
Exit Music Notes; Bibliography; Permissions; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Great White Way reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to The Scottsboro Boys (2011). It investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas. New archival research will have theater fans and |
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