The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical / Warren Hoffman.
The 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, allo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | The 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 ente. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461958192 1461958199 9780813563367 0813563364 9781612433219 1612433219 |