Making Americans : Jews and the Broadway musical / Andrea Most.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Most, Andrea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Acting American; Jews, theatricality, and modernity
  • 2. Cantors' sons, jazz singers, and Indian chiefs; The invention of ethnicity on the musical comedy stage
  • 3. Babes in arms; The politics of theatricality during the great depression
  • 4. "We know we belong to the land"; The theatricality of assimilation in Oklahoma!
  • 5. The apprenticeship of Annie Oakley; or, 'doin' what comes natur'lly"
  • 6. "You've got to be carefully taught"; The politics of race in south pacific
  • Coda; "I whistle a happy tune"