Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

by Jake Johnson

Book Overview

The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater's inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religion--imagining a better world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208599X
• ISBN13: 9780252085994
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"