03062nam 2200565 450 991046500840332120220218234801.00-8135-6336-4(CKB)3710000000089290(EBL)1637104(SSID)ssj0001132276(PQKBManifestationID)11663053(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132276(PQKBWorkID)11147942(PQKB)10032784(MiAaPQ)EBC1637104(EXLCZ)99371000000008929020140303d2014|||| uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrThe Great White Way Race and the Broadway Musical /Warren HoffmanPiscataway :Rutgers University Press,2014.1 online resource (x, 251 pages) illustrations, musicDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-6334-8 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 CenturyExit Music Notes; Bibliography; Permissions; Index; About the AuthorThe 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 scholars forever rethinking how they view this popular American enteRace in musical theaterHistorySocial aspects20th centuryUnited StatesMusic and raceHistorySocial aspects21st centuryUnited StatesMusical theaterHistoryPolitical aspects20th centuryUnited StatesMusical theaterPolitical aspectsHistory21st centuryUnited StatesMusical theaterRace in musical theaterHistorySocial aspectsMusic and raceHistorySocial aspectsMusical theaterHistoryPolitical aspectsMusical theaterPolitical aspectsHistoryMusical theater792.60890097471Hoffman Warren1976-883990AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910465008403321The Great White Way1974150UNINA