Bibliograph

Our musicals, ourselves, a social history of the American musical theater, John Bush Jones

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Our musicals, ourselves, a social history of the American musical theater, John Bush Jones

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Our musicals, ourselves

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

John Bush Jones

Sub title

a social history of the American musical theater

Table Of Contents

Patriotism, xenophobia, and World War I -- The musicals of the roaring twenties -- Coping with Depression -- World War II and the Rodgers and Hammerstein years -- From isolationism to idealism in the Cold War years -- Black and Jewish musicals since the 1960s -- Issue-driven musicals of the turbulent years -- Fragmented society, fragmented musicals -- A recycled culture, nostalgia, and spectacle -- New voices, new perspectives

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