The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical

"Bibliographic references, keyed to a lengthy end-of-volume bibliography, and chapter endnotes provide good documentation...Furnish[es] a good overall background for understanding the American musical...Recommended." --Choice"Proves that the study of musical theatre is not the eccentric hobby of a few nonconformist tenured professors but an emerging field populated by a brilliant and diverse group of scholars...Comprehensive and accessible enough to serve as a primer to introduce the uninitiated to current debates within the community and to assign to students as part of a course in the history and theory of the genre." --New Theatre Quarterly"A noteworthy contribution to the field of musical theater studies." --Journal of the Society for American Music