Making Americans
Subtitle: Jews and the Broadway musical
By: Andrea Most
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780674011656
Subjects: Jews; History and criticism; Music; Musical; Musicals
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Acting American; Jews, theatricality, and modernity; title: 2. Cantors' sons, jazz singers, and Indian chiefs; The invention of ethnicity on the musical comedy stage; title: 3. Babes in arms; The politics of theatricality during the great depression; title: 4. "We know we belong to the land"; The theatricality of assimilation in Oklahoma!; title: 5. The apprenticeship of Annie Oakley; or, 'doin' what comes natur'lly"; title: 6. "You've got to be carefully taught"; The politics of race in south pacific; title: Coda; "I whistle a happy tune".