The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity

by Raymond Knapp

Book Overview

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141053
• ISBN13: 9780691141053
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"