TY - BOOK ID - 61140350 TI - Show boat PY - 2013 SN - 0190250534 0199968136 0199968128 0199979553 0199759375 9780199968121 9780199979554 9780199759378 PB - Oxford New York DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in musical theater. KW - Music and race. KW - Musical theater KW - Lyric theater KW - Theater KW - Race and music KW - Race KW - African Americans in the musical theater KW - History KW - Kern, Jerome, KW - Ferber, Edna, KW - African Americans in musical theater KW - Music and race UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61140350 AB - Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later directors, c ER -