The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical By Warren Hoffman
Book Excerpt :
Broadway musicals are one of America?s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation? Now in a new second edition, The Great White Way?is the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from?Show Boat?(1927) to?Hamilton?(2015). This revised edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated chapters, as well as a brand-new chapter that looks at the blockbuster musicals The Book of Mormon and Hamilton. Musicals mirror their time periods and reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas in plain view of their audiences. While the musical
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