New Deal theater : the vernacular tradition in American political theater / Ilka Saal.

Author/creator Saal, Ilka
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Description232 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Theater--Political aspects. --United States. --20th century.
American drama--20th century. --History and criticism.
Politics and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
Political plays, American--History and criticism.

Contents Brecht on Broadway: reconsidering political theater -- Disjunctive aesthetics: a genealogy of political theater -- Strike songs: working- and middle-class revolutionaries -- Plays of cash and cabbages: from proletarian melodrama to revolutionary realism -- Why sing skies above?: labor musicals and living newspapers -- Toward postmodernism: the political theater of the 1960s.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-221) and index.
ISBN1403978018
ISBN9781403978011

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS 338.P6 S33 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold