Our musicals, ourselves : a social history of the American musical theater / John Bush Jones.
Publisher: Hanover : Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, [2003]Copyright date: �2003Description: 1 online resource (428 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1584653116 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781584653110
- 9781611682236 (e-book)
- 782.1/4/0973 21
- ML1711 .J65 2003eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-390) and index.
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.
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