Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater
- ISBN-10
- 1611282233
- ISBN-13
- 9781611282238
- Category
- Musical theater
- Pages
- 411
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Author
- John Bush Jones
Description
Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown.
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- 2011-04-17
- 426 pages
- Paperback
- Brandeis University Press
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