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Author:
Decker, Todd R.
Title:
Show boat : performing race in an American musical / Todd Decker.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Kern, Jerome,--1885-1945.--Show boat.
Hammerstein, Oscar,--II,--1895-1960.--Show boat.
Ferber, Edna,--1887-1968.--Show boat.
African Americans in musical theater.
Music and race.
Musical theater--History--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A Ferber plot -- The Robeson plan -- The Morgan plan -- A Ziegfeld soprano and a Shubert tenor -- Colored chorus curtains -- Featuring Robeson : 1928-1940 -- Broadway black, Hollywood white : 1943-1957 -- Landmark status : 1954-1989 -- Queenie's laugh : 1966-1998.
Series:
Broadway legacies
ISBN:
0199759375 (alk. paper)
9780199759378 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)772774130
LCCN:
2012000392
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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