Yankee doodle dandy : George M. Cohan and the Broadway stage / Elizabeth T. Craft.
Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theatre legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag," he has been called "the father of musical comedy." In Yankee Doodle Dandy, author Elizabeth T. Craft...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Broadway legacies.
Oxford scholarship online. |
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| Summary: | Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theatre legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag," he has been called "the father of musical comedy." In Yankee Doodle Dandy, author Elizabeth T. Craft situates Cohan as a central figure of his day. Examining his multifaceted contributions and the various sociocultural identities he came to embody, Craft shows how Cohan and his works indelibly shaped the American cultural landscape. Informative and engaging, this book offers rich reading for Broadway musical aficionados as well as scholars of musical theatre and American cultural history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197550434 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197550403.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 26, 2024). |