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Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical

Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical

Hecht, S.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

JudaismBroadway & MusicalsTheater History

Publisher Price: $54.99

ISBN10: 0230113273
ISBN13: 9780230113275
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 9 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.

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