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Jerome Kern. By Stephen Banfield. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. - Frank Loesser. By Thomas L. Riis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. - Kander and Ebb. By James Leve. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. - To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick. By Philip Lambert. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2012

Jim Lovensheimer
Jim Lovensheimer*
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 2012 , pp. 383 - 389
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References

1 Block, Geoffrey, Richard Rodgers (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., ix; my added emphasis.

3 In addition to Block's Richard Rodgers, and three of the books reviewed in this essay, the other volumes published in the Yale Broadway Masters series include John Snelson's Andrew Lloyd Webber (2004), William A. Everett's Sigmund Romberg (2007), and Larry Starr's George Gershwin (2010). Yale has also published works on the musical theater that are not a part of the series. See, for instance, Carter, Tim, Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Lovensheimer, Jim, “Authors and Texts,” in The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, ed. Knapp, Raymond, Morris, Mitchell, and Wolf, Stacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 20–32Google Scholar.

5 Lovensheimer, Jim, South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 In addition to my book, and Philip Lambert's study of Bock and Harnick reviewed here, the other two books in Oxford's Broadway Legacies series include Greenspan, Charlotte, Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Magee, Jeffrey, Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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10 Clum, John, Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999)Google Scholar; and Wolf, Stacy, A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Gottlieb, Jack, Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood (Albany: State University of New York in association with the Library of Congress, 2004)Google Scholar.