The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offer...

• 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 Stag...