Warren Hoffman

The Great White Way

Race and the Broadway Musical

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Hamilton (2015). 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 entertainment.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• 2nd Second Edition, New edition
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781978807389
• ISBN-10: 1978807384
• Artikelnr.: 56720374

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