dc.contributor.advisor | Oja, Carol J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Craft, Elizabeth Titrington | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-06T19:03:22Z | |
dash.embargo.terms | 2016-06-04 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2014-06-06 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Craft, Elizabeth Titrington. 2014. Becoming American Onstage: Broadway Narratives of Immigrant Experiences in the United States. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11633 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274310 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the Americanization of immigrants as a defining theme in American musical theater. It does so through studies of productions from across the past century about Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, and Latino/a Americans, and in each case, at least one of the creators is a member of the ethnic American group depicted. I contend that these artists found the musical to be a constructive tool for voicing their experiences of the struggle of Americanization and broadening notions of American identity. The resulting narrative expands upon the substantial "golden age"-centered literature on Jewish assimilation and the American musical. Decentralizing the "golden age," I show how the genre has helped write into cultural citizenship a broad range of immigrant groups during fraught periods in which their national belonging was contested. I draw upon a wide range of disciplines - especially immigration history, ethnic studies, and American studies as well as musicology - and diverse methods, including archival research, oral history, textual and musical analysis, reception history, and historically based hermeneutics. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Music | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dash.license | META_ONLY | |
dc.subject | Music | en_US |
dc.subject | American studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Theater | en_US |
dc.subject | cultural citizenship | en_US |
dc.subject | Flower Drum Song | en_US |
dc.subject | George M. Cohan | en_US |
dc.subject | immigration | en_US |
dc.subject | In the Heights | en_US |
dc.subject | musical theater | en_US |
dc.title | Becoming American Onstage: Broadway Narratives of Immigrant Experiences in the United States | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Craft, Elizabeth Titrington | |
dash.embargo.until | 10000-01-01 | |
thesis.degree.date | 2014 | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Music | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | Harvard University | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en_US |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Shelemay, Kay | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Revuluri, Sindhumathi | en_US |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Craft, Elizabeth | |