The Great White Way [electronic resource] : race and the Broadway musical / Warren Hoffman.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780813563367
- 0813563364
- Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Music and race
- Race in musical theater
- 792.6089/0097471 23
- ML3918.M85 H64 2014
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.
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