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Our musicals, ourselves : a social history of the American musical theatre
Title:
Our musicals, ourselves : a social history of the American musical theatre
Author:
Jones, John Bush.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Brandeis/University Press of New England paperback edition.
Publication Information:
Hanover : Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, 2004.

©2003
Physical Description:
xiii, 411 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780874519044
Format :
Book