Overview
Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like ""You're a Grand Old Flag"" and ""Give My Regards to Broadway,"" he has been called ""the father of musical comedy,"" and his statue stands in the heart of the New York theater district. Cohan's early twentieth-century shows and songs captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. He was an Irish American who had the audacity to represent himself as the Yankee Doodle emblem of the nation, a vaudevillian who had the nerve to unapologetically climb the ranks and package his lower-brow style as Broadway. In Yankee Doodle Dandy, the first book on Cohan in fifty years, author Elizabeth T. Craft situates Cohan as a central figure of his day. Examining his multifaceted contributions and the various sociocultural identities he came to embody, Craft shows how Cohan and his works indelibly shaped the American cultural landscape. Informative and engaging, this book offers rich listening for Broadway musical aficionados as well as scholars of musical theater and American cultural history.
Full Product Details
Author: Elizabeth Titrington Craft ,
Elizabeth T Craft ,
Tanya Eby ,
Tanya Eby
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798228340541
Publication Date: 22 October 2024
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Elizabeth T. Craft, in illuminating the life and tunes of George M. Cohan, outlines the roots of so many musical theater branches that continue to flourish today. A compulsively readable addition to the history of musical theater."" -- ""Lin-Manuel Miranda, American singer, songwriter, filmmaker, actor, and librettist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Tony, and Primetime Emmy awards""
Author Information
Elizabeth T. Craft is assistant professor of music at the University of Utah. Tanya Eby is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. AudioFile magazine says, ""Listening to Tanya Eby is like listening to a full-cast recording."" Tanya has a BA in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing. Besides narrating, Tanya blogs and works on her own novels. She has published four novels and is at work on her fifth. Tanya Eby is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. AudioFile magazine says, ""Listening to Tanya Eby is like listening to a full-cast recording."" Tanya has a BA in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing. Besides narrating, Tanya blogs and works on her own novels. She has published four novels and is at work on her fifth.
