Title: Making Americans : Jews and the Broadway musical /
Authors: Most, Andrea.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Musicals United States History and criticism; Jews United States Music History and criticism.
Contents: 1. Acting American : Jews, theatricality, and modernity -- 2. Cantors' sons, jazz singers, and Indian chiefs : the invention of ethnicity on the musical comedy stage -- 3. Babes in arms : the politics of theatricality during the great depression -- 4. "We know we belong to the land" : the theatricality of assimilation in Oklahoma! -- 5. The apprenticeship of Annie Oakley; or, 'doin' what comes natur'lly" -- 6. "You've got to be carefully taught" : The politics of race in South Pacific -- Coda : "I whistle a happy tune."