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Musical Theatre Resources

This guide provides suggested resources for musical theatre research at the University of Michigan.

Selected Topic-Specific Histories

Clum, John M.
Something for the boys: musical theater and gay culture.
ML 1700 .C581 1999

Hillman, Jessica.
Echoes of the Holocaust on the American musical stage.
ML 1711 .H38 2012

Knapp, Raymond.
The American musical and the formation of national identity.
ML 1711 .K61 2004

Knapp, Raymond.
The American musical and the performance of personal identity.
ML 2054 .K61 2006

Most, Andrea.
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway musical.
ML 1711 .M741 2004

Smith, Susan.
The musical: race, gender and performance.
ML 2054 .S65 2005

van der Merwe, Ann Ommen.
The Ziegfeld Follies: a history in song.
ML 2054 .V36 2009

Wolf, Stacy.
Changed for good: a feminist history of the Broadway musical.
ML 2054 .W64 2011

Wollman, Elizabeth L.
Hard times: the adult musical in 1970s New York City.
ML 1711.8 .N3 W62 2013

Young, Steve and Sport Murphy.
Everything's coming up profits: the golden age of industrial musicals.
ML 2054 .Y68 2013