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Title:
The American musical and the formation of national identity / Raymond Knapp.
Author:
Knapp, Raymond.
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Call Number:
ML1711 .K6 2005
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780691118642

9780691126135
Physical Description:
xxi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
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