Transposing Broadway Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical |
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| Author:
| Hecht, Stuart J. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-43365-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
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Book Description:
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Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience. Hecht offers a fascinating examination of the relationship between Jews, assimilation, and the changing face of the American musical in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience. Hecht offers a fascinating examination of the relationship between Jews, assimilation, and the changing face of the American musical in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.