The Great White Way

Race and the Broadway Musical
2. 2. Auflage, New Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0711-2
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

The Great White Way, second edition, now fully updated, reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat to Hamilton. Musicals reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman 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 in plain view of their audiences. While the musical is informed by the cultural contributions of African Americans and Jewish immigrants, Hoffman argues that ultimately the history of the American musical is the history of white identity in the United States. He offers entirely new and surprising takes on shows from the American musical canon.
 
New archival research on the creators who produced and wrote these shows will have theater fans and scholars rethinking how they view this popular American entertainment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffman, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Musicals

Über Autor(innen)

Warren Hoffman, PhD, is the author of The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture. He has worked professionally in the theater for more than ten years as a program director, producer, theater critic, and playwright.