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The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical

2014 Warren Hoffman ;ISBN: 9780813563343 ;ISBN: 0813563348 ;ISBN: 9780813563350 ;ISBN: 0813563356 ;EISBN: 9780813563367 ;EISBN: 0813563364 ;OCLC: 871224048 ;LCCallNum: ML3918.M85H64 2014

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  • Title:
    The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical
  • Author: Hoffman, Warren
  • Subjects: 20th century ; 21st century ; Broadway & Musical Revue ; History ; Music and race ; Musical theater ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Political aspects ; Race in musical theater ; Social aspects ; Theater ; United States
  • Description: Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation? The Great White Wayis the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years fromShow Boat(1927) toThe Scottsboro Boys(2011). Musicals mirror their time periods and reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman 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 in plain view of their audiences. While the musical is informed by the cultural contributions of African Americans and Jewish immigrants, Hoffman argues that ultimately the history of the American musical is the history of white identity in the United States. Presented chronologically,The Great White Wayshows how perceptions of race altered over time and how musicals dealt with those changes. Hoffman focuses first on shows leading up to and comprising the Golden Age of Broadway (1927-1960s), then turns his attention to the revivals and nostalgic vehicles that defined the final quarter of the twentieth century. He offers entirely new and surprising takes on shows from the American musical canon-Show Boat(1927),Oklahoma!(1943),Annie Get Your Gun(1946),The Music Man(1957),West Side Story(1957),A Chorus Line(1975), and42nd Street(1980), among others.New archival research on the creators who produced and wrote these shows, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, and Edward Kleban, will have theater fans and scholars rethinking forever how they view this popular American entertainment.
  • Publisher: New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
  • Creation Date: 2014
  • Format: 256
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780813563343
    ISBN: 0813563348
    ISBN: 9780813563350
    ISBN: 0813563356
    EISBN: 9780813563367
    EISBN: 0813563364
    OCLC: 871224048
    LCCallNum: ML3918.M85H64 2014
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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