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Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
Stacy Wolf
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Description for Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers, creators, and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the genre. Moving from decade to decade, Wolf first highlights the assumptions that circulated about gender and sexuality at the time. She then looks at the leading musicals to stress the key aspects ... Read more
From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers, creators, and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the genre. Moving from decade to decade, Wolf first highlights the assumptions that circulated about gender and sexuality at the time. She then looks at the leading musicals to stress the key aspects ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195378245
SKU
V9780195378245
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99-36
About Stacy Wolf
Stacy Wolf is Associate Professor of Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.
Reviews for Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
I found Stacy Wolf's book fascinating and surprising. It not only gave me a fresh perspective on the history of musical theatre, it revealed things to me about my own show I didn't know were there.
Stephen Schwartz
This book is absolutely brilliant on many levels. Wolf manages, in one stroke, to place the musical's feminine fan base-long ... Read more
Stephen Schwartz
This book is absolutely brilliant on many levels. Wolf manages, in one stroke, to place the musical's feminine fan base-long ... Read more