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The Resource The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical, Warren Hoffman, (electronic resource/)
The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical, Warren Hoffman, (electronic resource/)
Resource Information
The item The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical, Warren Hoffman, (electronic resource/) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Houston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical, Warren Hoffman, (electronic resource/) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Houston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- The Great White Way reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to The Scottsboro Boys (2011). It investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas. New archival research will have theater fans and scholars forever rethinking how they view this popular American ente
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 251 pages)
- Contents
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- Overture : all singin'! all dancin'! all white people?
- Act one : 1927-1957
- Only make believe : performing race in Show boat
- Playing cowboys and Indians : forging whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun
- Trouble in New York City : the racial politics of West Side story and the Music man
- Act two : 1967-2012
- Carbon copies : Black and interracial productions of white musicals
- A chorus line : the Benetton of Broadway musicals
- Everything old is new again : nostalgia and the Broadway musical at the end of the twentieth century
- Exit music
- Isbn
- 9780813563367
- Label
- The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical
- Title
- The Great White Way
- Title remainder
- race and the Broadway musical
- Statement of responsibility
- Warren Hoffman
- Subject
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- Race in musical theater
- Electronic books
- Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Music and race
- Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | Broadway & Musical Revue
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | General
- Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Great White Way reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to The Scottsboro Boys (2011). It investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas. New archival research will have theater fans and scholars forever rethinking how they view this popular American ente
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hoffman, Warren
- Dewey number
- 792.6089/0097471
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML3918.M85
- LC item number
- H64 2014eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Race in musical theater
- Music and race
- Musical theater
- Musical theater
- Musical theater
- Musical theater
- Music and race
- Musical theater
- Musical theater
- Race in musical theater
- PERFORMING ARTS
- PERFORMING ARTS
- Label
- The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical, Warren Hoffman, (electronic resource/)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Overture : all singin'! all dancin'! all white people? -- Act one : 1927-1957 -- Only make believe : performing race in Show boat -- Playing cowboys and Indians : forging whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun -- Trouble in New York City : the racial politics of West Side story and the Music man -- Act two : 1967-2012 -- Carbon copies : Black and interracial productions of white musicals -- A chorus line : the Benetton of Broadway musicals -- Everything old is new again : nostalgia and the Broadway musical at the end of the twentieth century -- Exit music
- Control code
- ocn870994539
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 251 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813563367
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 22573/ctt5m4zfz
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)870994539
- (Sirsi) a1848268
- Label
- The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical, Warren Hoffman, (electronic resource/)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Overture : all singin'! all dancin'! all white people? -- Act one : 1927-1957 -- Only make believe : performing race in Show boat -- Playing cowboys and Indians : forging whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun -- Trouble in New York City : the racial politics of West Side story and the Music man -- Act two : 1967-2012 -- Carbon copies : Black and interracial productions of white musicals -- A chorus line : the Benetton of Broadway musicals -- Everything old is new again : nostalgia and the Broadway musical at the end of the twentieth century -- Exit music
- Control code
- ocn870994539
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 251 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813563367
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 22573/ctt5m4zfz
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)870994539
- (Sirsi) a1848268
Subject
- Electronic books
- Music and race
- Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Musical theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Musical theater -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | Broadway & Musical Revue
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | General
- Race in musical theater
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