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The Great White Way

Hoffman, Warren, 1976-

The Great White Way race and the Broadway musical / [electronic resource] : Warren Hoffman. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780813563367 0813563364


Musical theater--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Musical theater--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Musical theater--Social aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Musical theater--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Music and race.
Race in musical theater.


Electronic books.

ML3918.M85 / H64 2014

792.6089/0097471