Transposing Broadway Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical

Name: Transposing Broadway Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical
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ISBN: 9780230113275

ISBN-10: 0230113273

ISBN-13: 9780230113275

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stuart J. Hecht

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Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists--from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim--have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's aspirations and concerns have played out in the shows themselves. Musicals thus became a paradigm which instructed newcomers in how to assimilate while correspondingly envisioning "American Dream" America as democratic and inclusive. Broadway musicals still continue to function today as "cultural Ellis Islands" for fringe populations seeking acceptance into the nation's mainstream--including women, blacks, Latinos, and gays--all essentially modeled…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/9/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Stuart J. Hecht is Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston College, USA.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Broadway as a Cultural Ellis Island



Hello, Young Lovers: Assimilation and Dramatic Configurations in the American Musical



The Melting Pot Paradigm of Irving Berlin



How to Succeed



Cinderellas



Turns of the Century: Dreams of Progress Dreams of Loss



Fiddler's Children



Lovable Monsters: An Epilogue


Notes


Representative Bibliography


Index