Musical Theater and American Culture

by Dave Walsh and Len Platt

Though there have been many histories of the theater and specifically the theatrical musical, none has done quite what Musical Theater and American Culture achieves: it explores how the musical emerged in the late-18th and 19th centuries as a specifically American form of entertainment and went on to become a powerful medium of popular and political collective expression, articulating the tensions and reconciliations of everyday relations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027598057X
• ISBN13: 9780275980573
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"