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The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity /
Along with jazz & the American motion picture, the American musical is a distinctive art form that emerged in the first half of the 20th century. Raymond Knapp explores its origins & the themes that have dominated up to the modern day.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introductions. Contexts and strategies ; Nineteenth-century European roots : models and topics ; Early American developments : minstrelsy, extravaganza, pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville ; American song through Tin Pan Alley
- Defining America. Whose (Who's) America? ; American mythologies ; Counter-mythologies
- Managing America's others. Race and ethnicity ; Dealing with the Second World War ; Exoticism ; Afterword : other directions, other identities
- Appendix A : Art and commerce : the business of making musicals.