The American musical and the formation of national identity, Raymond Knapp, (electronic book)

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index

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Contents: Introductions. Contexts and strategies ; Nineteenth-century European roots : models and topics ; Early American developments : minstrelsy, extravaganza, pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville ; American song through Tin Pan Alley -- Defining America. Whose (Who's) America? ; American mythologies ; Counter-mythologies -- Managing America's others. Race and ethnicity ; Dealing with the Second World War ; Exoticism ; Afterword : other directions, other identities -- Appendix A : Art and commerce : the business of making musicals

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