Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American by S. Hecht

By S. Hecht

over the past hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have built a sort that corresponds on to the Americanization of the more and more Jewish manhattan viewers; and that audience's aspirations and issues have performed out within the exhibits themselves. Musicals hence grew to become a paradigm which prompt rookies in the best way to assimilate whereas correspondingly envisioning "American Dream" the United States as democratic and inclusive. Broadway musicals nonetheless proceed to operate at the present time as "cultural Ellis Islands" for fringe populations looking popularity into the nation's mainstream - together with ladies, blacks, Latinos, and gays - all primarily modeled upon the Jewish instance. Stuart J. Hecht bargains a fascinatingexamination of the connection among Jews, assimilation, and the altering face of the yankee musical.

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