Warren Hoffman

The Great White Way

Race and the Broadway Musical

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Musicals reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman 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 in plain view of their audiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Second Edition, New edition, Second Edition, New e
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781978807112
• ISBN-10: 1978807112
• Artikelnr.: 56973147

Autorenporträt

WARREN HOFFMAN, PhD, is the author of The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture. He has worked professionally in the theater for more than ten years as a program director, producer, theater critic, and playwright.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Overture: All Singin’! All Dancin’! All White People?
Act One: 1927–1957
1 Only Make Believe: Performing Race in Show Boat
2 Playing Cowboys and Indians: Forging Whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie Get
Your Gun
3 Trouble in New York City: The Racial Politics of West Side Story and The
Music Man
Act Two: 1967–2019
4 Carbon Copies: Black and Interracial Productions of White Musicals
5 A Chorus Line: The Benetton of Broadway Musicals
6 Everything Old Is New Again: Nostalgia and the Broadway Musical at the
End of the Twentieth Century
7 Blockbuster Musicals in the Age of Obama: The Book of Mormon and Hamilton
Exit Music
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Permissions
Index