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Show boat : performing race in an American musical / Todd Decker.
LIBRA ML410.K385 D43 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Decker, Todd R.
- Series:
- Broadway legacies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat.
- Kern, Jerome.
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Show boat.
- Ferber, Edna.
- African Americans in musical theater.
- Music and race.
- Musical theater--History--20th century.
- Musical theater.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- A Ferber plot
- The Robeson plan
- The Morgan plan
- A Ziegfeld soprano and a Shubert tenor
- Colored chorus curtains
- Featuring Robeson : 1928-1936
- Broadway black, Hollywood white : 1946-1957
- Landmark status : 1954-1989
- Queenie's laugh : 1966-1998.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199759378
- 0199759375
- OCLC:
- 772774130
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