| Description |
xxi, 361 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-349) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, American.
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| ISBN |
0691118647 alkaline paper |
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