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Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical.(Book Review)
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Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Andrea Most. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. 253 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).
This study offers an interpretation of the Broadway musical through a reading of six representative shows by way of the Jewishness of the authors, composers, and lyricists. The author finds in them a familiar story of the assimilation of the ethnic (and racial) outsider into the American mainstream, and she does this by allegorizing the production history and the narrative content of the form, and by making Jewishness the ...
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