The American musical and the formation of national identity
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
Print Book, English, 2006
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780691126135, 0691126135
63398492
Contexts and strategies
Nineteenth-century European roots : models and topics
Early American developments : minstrelsy, extravaganza, pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville
American song through Tin Pan Alley
Whose (who's) America?
American mythologies
Counter-mythologies
Race and ethnicity
Dealing with the Second World War
Exoticism
Afterword : other directions, other identities
Originally published: 2005