Carefully Taught: American History through Broadway Musicals
Cary Ginell, "Carefully Taught: American History through Broadway Musicals"
English | ISBN: 1493065408 | 2022 | 284 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1493065408 | 2022 | 284 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Carefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dissects the stories, characters, and songs to not only examine how Broadway viewed historical events, epochs, and personalities, but also to capture how dramatic license separated fact from fantasy. The chosen musicals fall into a variety of categories: biographies of famous Americans, (Andrew Jackson and Fiorello LaGuardia), stories with national conflicts (Hamilton, South Pacific), events that captured the attention of the American public (Floyd Collins, Newsies), and sociological studies or satires of specific eras (The Music Man, Hair).
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