American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage : Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy
by
Maya Cantu
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137561459
ISBN-13
9781137561459
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 12th, 2015
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 22.30 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
MusicalsMusic of film and stageGender studies: women and girlsGender studies: women
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Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), Maya Cantu considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s through the 1950s adapted and transformed Perrault's fairy tale icon in order to address changing social and professional roles for American women.
Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage considers how Broadway musicals from the 1920s through the 1950s adapted and transformed Perrault''s fairy tale icon in order to address changing social and professional roles for American women. Drawing heavily upon historical research in American culture and gender studies, Cantu analyzes female lyricists and librettists who were significant in translating Perrault''s heroine to the contexts and concerns of the American "working girl." In exploring how these and other writers (of both sexes) adapted the Cinderella myth to a twentieth-century urban landscape, this book challenges traditional assumptions about the American musical''s relationship to both feminism and modernism - placing the Cinderella story into the Broadway musical canon.
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