Title:
Historians on Hamilton : how a blockbuster musical is restaging America's past / edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter.
Author:
Romano, Renee Christine, editor.
Potter, Claire Bond, 1958- editor.
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Publication Information:
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Call Number:
ML410.M67976 H57 2018
Abstract:
Brings together a collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America's history. The contributors examine what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters. These short and lively essays examine why Hamilton became an Obama-era sensation and consider its continued relevance in the age of Trump.
ISBN:
9780813590301
9780813590295
Physical Description:
399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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Contents:
History is happening in Manhattan / From Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton to Hamilton: an American musical / "Can we get back to politics? Please?": Hamilton's missing politics in Hamilton / Race-conscious casting and the erasure of the black past in Hamilton / The greatest city in the world?: Slavery in New York in the age of Hamilton / "Remember... I'm your man": Masculinity, marriage, and gender in Hamilton / "The ten-dollar Founding Father": Hamilton, money, and federal power / Hamilton as founders chic: a neo-Federalist, antislavery usable past? / Hamilton and the American Revolution on stage and screen / From The Black Crook to Hamilton: a brief history of hot tickets on Broadway / Looking at Hamilton from inside the Broadway bubble / Mind the gap: teaching Hamilton / Reckoning with America's racial past, present, and future in Hamilton / Who tells your story?: Hamilton as a people's history / Hamilton: a new American civic myth / "Safe in the nation we've made?": Staging Hamilton on social media
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