| Management number | 231904710 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $13.76 | Model Number | 231904710 | ||
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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. Read more
| ASIN | B009AYK87M |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1137001740 |
| Edition | 2011th |
| Language | English |
| File size | 576 KB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 249 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Publication date | October 1, 2014 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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