Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Great White WayCondition: NewSubtitle: Race and the Broadway MusicalEAN: 9781978807112ISBN: 9781978807112Publisher: Rutgers University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/14/2020Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 435gAuthor: Warren HoffmanGenre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureISBN-10: 1978807112Edition: Second Edition, New edition, Second Edition, New editionDescription: 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? Now in a new second edition, The Great White Way is the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to Hamilton (2015). This revised edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated chapters, as well as a brand-new chapter that looks at the blockbuster musicals The Book of Mormon and Hamilton. 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 Way shows 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), and 42nd Street (1980), among others. In addition to a new chapter on Hamilton and The Book of Mormon, this revised edition brings The Great White Way fully into the twenty-first century with an examination of jukebox musicals and the role of off-Broadway and regional theaters in the development of the American musical. 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.Item Width: 23mmRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Great White Way
Title: The Great White Way
Subtitle: Race and the Broadway Musical
EAN: 9781978807112
ISBN: 9781978807112
Release Date: 02/14/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
ISBN-10: 1978807112
Edition: 2
Book Title: Great White Way : Race and the Broadway Musical
Number of Pages: 302 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Topic: Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Discrimination & Race Relations, Theater / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Features: New Edition
Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Weight: 13.9 Oz
Author: Warren Hoffman
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
