The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical /

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Author / Creator:	Hoffman, Warren, 1976-
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Description:	x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Race in musical theater. Music and race. Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Music and race. Race in musical theater. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9919331

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ISBN:	9780813563350 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813563356 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813563343 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813563348 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813563367 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Overture : all singin'! all dancin'! all white people?
Act one : 1927-1957
Only make believe : performing race in Show boat
Playing cowboys and Indians : forging whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun
Trouble in New York City : the racial politics of West Side story and the Music man
Act two : 1967-2012
Carbon copies : Black and interracial productions of white musicals
A chorus line : the Benetton of Broadway musicals
Everything old is new again : nostalgia and the Broadway musical at the end of the twentieth century
Exit music.

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