{"product_id":"transposing-broadway-s-hecht-9780230113275","title":"Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical","description":"Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's aspirations and concerns have played out in the shows themselves. Musicals thus became a paradigm which instructed newcomers in how to assimilate while correspondingly envisioning \"American Dream\" America as democratic and inclusive. Broadway musicals still continue to function today as \"cultural Ellis Islands\" for fringe populations seeking acceptance into the nation's mainstream - including women, blacks, Latinos, and gays - all essentially modeled upon the Jewish example. Stuart J. Hecht offers a fascinatingexamination of the relationship between Jews, assimilation, and the changing face of the American musical. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. Hecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0230113273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780230113275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012","brand":"S. Hecht","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44598709616895,"sku":"9780230113275","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3eac3fbb-eaf2-49b0-bb07-9f046da5cea8.jpg?v=1702383995","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transposing-broadway-s-hecht-9780230113275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}