The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical / Warren Hoffman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hoffman, Warren, 1976-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Race in musical theater. Music and race. Musical theater > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Musical theater > Social aspects > United States > History > 21st century. Musical theater > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Musical theater > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Overture : all singin'! all dancin'! all white people?
Act one : 1927-1957
Only make believe : performing race in Show boat
Playing cowboys and Indians : forging whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun
Trouble in New York City : the racial politics of West Side story and the Music man
Act two : 1967-2012
Carbon copies : Black and interracial productions of white musicals
A chorus line : the Benetton of Broadway musicals
Everything old is new again : nostalgia and the Broadway musical at the end of the twentieth century
Exit music.

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