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Transposing BroadwayJews, assimilation, and the American musical /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transposing BroadwayStuart J. Hecht.
Reminder of title:	Jews, assimilation, and the American musical /
Author:	Hecht, Stuart Joel,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011.
Description:	1 online resource (240 p.)
Subject:	MusicalsHistory20th century.United States
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137001740
ISBN:	9781137001740 (electronic bk.)

Transposing BroadwayJews, assimilation, and the American musical /
Hecht, Stuart Joel,1955-

Transposing BroadwayJews, assimilation, and the American musical /[electronic resource] :Stuart J. Hecht. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index.

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 --.

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.

ISBN: 9781137001740 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613381873

Source: 572618Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

566308
Musicals
--History--United States--20th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: ML1711 / .H34 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 792.6089/924073

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