Show boat [electronic resource] : performing race in an American musical / Todd Decker.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Decker, Todd R.
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:Broadway legacies
Subjects:
Kern, Jerome, > 1885-1945. > Show boat.
Ferber, Edna, > 1887-1968. > Show boat.
African Americans in musical theater.
Music and race.
Musical theater > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
Format: Electronic eBook
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.