Place for Us Essay on the Broadway Musical

Name: Place for Us Essay on the Broadway Musical
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ISBN: 9780674003880

ISBN-10: 0674003888

ISBN-13: 9780674003880

Edition: 1998

Authors: D. A. Miller

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It used to be a secret that, in its postwar heyday, the Broadway musical recruited a massive underground following of gay men. But though this once silent social fact currently spawns jokes that every sitcom viewer is presumed to be in on, it has not necessarily become better understood. In Place for Us, D. A. Miller probes what all the jokes laugh off: the embarrassingly mutual affinity between a "general" cultural form and the despised "minority" that was in fact that form's implicit audience. In a style that is in turn novelistic, memorial, autobiographical, and critical, the author restores to their historical density the main modes of reception that so many gay men developed to…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.95" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



In the Basement At the Bar On Broadway


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