Our Musicals, Ourselves A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

Name: Our Musicals, Ourselves A Social History of the American Musical Theatre
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ISBN: 9780874519044

ISBN-10: 0874519047

ISBN-13: 9780874519044

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Bush Jones

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Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with wonderful, diversionary shows like The Music Man or My Fair Lady, John Bush Jones instead selects musicals for their social relevance and the extent to which they engage, directly or metaphorically, contemporary politics and culture. Organized chronologically, with some liberties taken to keep together similarly themed musicals, Jones examines dozens of Broadway shows from the beginning of the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Patriotism, Xenophobia, and World War I



The Musicals of the Roaring Twenties



Coping with Depression



World War II and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Years



From Isolationism to Idealism in the Cold War years



Black and Jewish Musicals since the 1960s



Issue-Driven Musicals of the Turbulent Years



Fragmented Society, Fragmented Musicals



"A Recycled Culture," Nostalgia and Spectacle



New Voices, New Perspectives


Appendices



Broadway Musical Production, 1919-1929



Long-Running Diversionary Musicals. 1929-1938



Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1939-1945



Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1946-1960



Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1960-1969



Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1969-1979



Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1979-2000


Sources Cited


Index