Todd Decker

Show Boat

Performing Race in an American Musical

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Produktbeschreibung

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers ¿ among them Paul Robeson ¿ made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190250539
• ISBN-10: 0190250534
• Artikelnr.: 42479920

Autorenporträt

Todd Decker is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'?: The Lives of an American Song and Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz, winner of the Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Geoffrey Block
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Magnolia's Black Voice
Part One: Making
1. A Ferber Plot
2. The Robeson Plan
3. The Morgan Plan
4. A Ziegfeld Soprano and a Shubert Tenor
5. Colored Chorus Curtains
Part Two: Remaking
6. Featuring Robeson: 1928-1940
7. Broadway Black, Hollywood White: 1943-1957
8. Landmark Status: 1954-1989
9. Queenie's Laugh: 1966-1998
Epilogue
Appendix 1 Cast of Characters
Appendix 2 Archival Sources for the 1927 Broadway Production
Appendix 3 Select Stage and Screen Versions (1928-1998)
References
Notes
Index