Overview

The volume is a collection of scholarly essays and personal responses that contextualizes Hamilton: An American Musical in various frameworks: hip-hop theatre and history, American history, musicals, contemporary politics, queer theory, feminism, and more. Hamilton is arguably the most important piece of American theatre in 25 years in terms of both national impact and shaping influence on American theatre. It is part of a larger history of American theatre that reframes the United States and shows the nation its face in a manner not before seen but that is resolutely true. With essays from a number of scholars, artists, political scientists, and historians, the book engages with generational differences in response to the play, transformations of the perception of the musical between the Obama and Trump administrations, youth culture, color-conscious casting, feminist critiques, comparisons with black-ish, The Mountaintop, Assassins, and In the Heights, as well as Hamilton's place in hip hop theatre.

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Author:   Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781476671796

ISBN 10:   1476671796
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   03 April 2024
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing, Erasing and Versioning Hamilton Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. I. “Grow into more of a phenomenon”: Hamilton as History and Cultural Experience The Battle for Hamilton: Then and Michael A. Genovese “Watching the afterbirth of a nation, watching the tension grow”: Meta-Hamilton and the ­Citizen-Artist During Two Presidencies Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. “This is not a moment, it’s a movement”: Why Millennials Are “Hamiltrash” Vicki L. Hoskins II. “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?” Race and Class in Hamilton Hamilton Hype and Hamilton Hate: In Dahomey, A Raisin in the Sun, and a Genealogy of Race in American Popular Theater Megan E. Geigner Parodying Through Song: How Comic Devices in King George III’s Songs in Hamilton Challenge Contemporary Dispositions About the Symbolic Value of Youth Culture Evi Stamatiou “The villain in your history”: The Complications of ­Color-Conscious Casting in Hamilton’s America Laura London Waringer III. “Who tells your story?” Exclusive Inclusivity and Whose Story Gets Told “A woman who has never been satisfied”: A Feminist Critique of Hamilton Alexa Schreiber “Compel him to include female agency in the sequel,” or Gender Construction in Hamilton Lisa Quoresimo “Here comes the general”: An Examination of the Depiction of the African American Man as the Father of America in Hamilton Aaron Brown IV. “Even though we started at the very same time…” Comparative Hamiltons “You hear that music in the air?” Consciousness of Music in In the Heights and Hamilton Dan Rubins Contextualizing ­Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Hamilton Within ­Hip-Hop Theater History Priscilla Maria Page Race, Casting, and Politics: A Comparative Study of ­Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop Anne Stefani “Everybody’s got the right to their dreams”: The Violent Pursuit of the American Dream in Assassins and Hamilton Stephanie Lim White Supremacy and ­Hyper-Masculinity: Hamilton, Hip-Hop and Homicide Alisa C. Roost Conclusion: A Hamilton Evolution Daniel Banks Works Cited About the Contributors Index

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Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

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