Staging Rebellion in the Musical, Hair: Marginalised Voices in Musical Theatre [Paperback]

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Hair: Origins, Forms, and the Fragmented Musical.

PART I: Race

2: Colored Spade: Reappropriating Stereotypes.

3: I Aint Dyin for No White Man: Black Power on Broadway.

PART II: Gender

4: Feminist Approaches.

5: Multiple Masculinities.

PART III: Hair and Its Resonances

6: Crossing Over: Hair and the Music Industry.

7: Reviving the Text: Hair in the Contemporary Era.

8: The Utopian Promise of Hair.

9: Conclusion.

Index

Sarah Elisabeth Browne is Head of the School of Performing Arts and Associate Dean at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She has worked extensively as conductor, arranger, and musical director, and has worked in education for over 20 years. Her research interests include the politics of race and gender in musical theatre, American musical theatre of the 1960s, and stage-to-screen transitions of musicals.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving voice to those who are historically considered to be on the margins of musical theatre history.

Sarah Browne interrogates key scenes from the musical which will seek to identify the relationship between performance and the cultural moment. Whilst it is widely acknowledged that Hair is a product of the sixties counter-culture, this study will place the analysisl³n