The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical

Introduction (Stacy Wolf); I. Historiography; 1. Narratives and Values: Stories of the Musical (Mitchell Morris); 2. Texts and Authors (Jim Lovensheimer); 3. Marian Waltzes while Harold Marches: Musical Styles and Types in the American Musical (Paul Laird); 4. Evolution of Dance in the Golden Age of the American Book Musical (Liza Gennaro); II. Transformations; 5. Minstrelsy and Theatrical Miscegenation (Thomas L. Riis); 6. Toward the First Golden Age: Tin Pan Alley Songs on Stage and Screen before World War II (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris); 7. Integration (Geoffrey Block); 8. After the Golden Age (Jessica Sternfeld & Elizabeth L. Wollman); III. Media; 9. Theatre (Tamsen Wolff); 10. The Filmed Musical: Fissures and Fusions between Stage and Screen (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris); 11. The Television Musical: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Robynn J. Stilwell); 12. The Animated Film Musical (Susan Smith); 13. Broadway on Records: The Evolution of the Original Cast Album (George Reddick); IV. Identities; 14. Race, Ethnicity, Performance (Todd Decker); 15. Gender and Sexuality (Stacy Wolf); 16. The Politics of Region and Nation in American Musicals (Chase A. Bringardner); 17. Class and Culture (David Savran); V. Performance; 18. Putting It Together: The Institutional Structure of the American Musical Theatre (David Sanjek); 19. Orchestration and Arrangement: Creating the Broadway Sound (Dominic Symonds); 20. Razzle Dazzle 'Em: Musical Theatre Directors from Abbott to Zaks (Barbara Wallace Grossman); 21. What You See: Sets, Costumes, Lights, and Spectacle (Virginia Anderson); 22. Acting (John Clum); 23. Singing (Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp); 24. Dance and Choreography (Zachary Dorsey); VI. Audiences; 25. Box Office (Steven Adler); 26. Audiences and Critics (Michelle Dvoskin); 27. Stars and Fans (Holley Replogle-Wong); 28. Knowing Your Audience: Community and High School Musical Theatre Production (Jennifer Chapman); 29. Performance,

Raymond Knapp, UCLA;Mitchell Morris, UCLA;Stacy Wolf, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University

"The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical and its companion website [offer] a fresh and vital collection of 'keyword' essays that unpick and re-thread both process and product." --The Stage, listed as one of the best books of 2012

"Bibliographic references, keyed to a lengthy end-of-volume bibliography, and chapter endnotes provide good documentation...Furnish[es] a good overall background for understanding the American musical...Recommended." --Choice

"Proves that the study of musical theatre is not the eccentric hobby of a few nonconformist tenured professors but an emerging field populated by a brilliant and diverse group of scholars...Comprehensive and accessible enough to serve as a primer to introduce the uninitiated to current debates within the community and to assign to students as part of a course in the history and theory of the genre." --New Theatre Quarterly

"Makes for a fascinating read for the aficionado." --ARSC Journal