Our musicals, ourselves : a social history of the American musicaltheatre
Print Book, English, ©2003
Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, Hanover, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 411 pages ; 25 cm
9781584653110, 1584653116
1012054490
Patriotism, xenophobia, and World War I
The musicals of the roaring twenties
Coping with Depression
World War II and the Rodgers and Hammerstein years
From isolationism to idealism in the Cold War years
Black and Jewish musicals since the 1960s
Issue-driven musicals of the turbulent years
Fragmented society, fragmented musicals
A recycled culture, nostalgia, and spectacle
New voices, new perspectives