Larry Stempel, Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater and Stacy Wolf, Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

William A. Everett University of Missouri-Kansas City

Keywords: musical theater, gender studies

Abstract

Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater and Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical can both be used effectively in a variety of music history courses, either as primary texts for classes on the musical theater itself or for assigned readings in other courses. Showtime provides a large-scale systematic view of the genre, while Changed for Good focuses on how female characters are depicted in musicals from the 1950s to the early 2000s.

Author Biography

William A. Everett, University of Missouri-Kansas City

William A. Everett (PhD, University of Kansas) is Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. Dr. Everett is the author of several books including The Musical: A Research and Information Guide (New York: Routledge, 2004; second edition, 2011), Sigmund Romberg (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), and Rudolf Friml (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008). He is contributing co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; second edition, 2008) and co-author of The Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2008). Dr. Everett’s current projects focus on the musicals that played at Daly’s Theatre in London during the 1890s and a history of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra.

Published

2012-07-16

Issue

Vol 3 No 1: (Fall 2012)

Section

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