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Title :
Our musicals, ourselves : a social history of the American musical theater / John Bush Jones.
Title:
Our musicals, ourselves :
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
xiii, 411 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781584653110
Production / Publication Information:
Hanover : Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, c2003.
Contents:
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.
Bibliography note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index.
Language:
English
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