Transposing Broadway

Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical

Paperback Engels 2011 9781349295036
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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 upon the Jewish example. Stuart J. Hecht offers a fascinatingexamination of the relationship between Jews, assimilation, and the changing face of the American musical. 

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ISBN13:9781349295036
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction: Broadway as a Cultural Ellis Island   Hello, Young Lovers: Assimilation and Dramatic Configurations   The Melting Pot Paradigm of Irving Berlin   How to Succeed   Cinderellas   Turns of the Century: Dreams of Progress, Dreams of Loss   Fiddler's Children  Epilogue: Loveable Monsters

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