• Foreword ix * Acknowledgements xi * Introduction 1 * 1. Patriotism, Xenophobia, and World War I 12 * 2. The Musicals of the Roaring Twenties 52 * 3. Coping with Depression 79 * 4. World War II and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Years 123 * 5. From Isolationism to Idealism in the Cold War years 161 * 6. Black and Jewish Musicals since the 1960s 202 * 7. Issue-Driven Musicals of the Turbulent Years 235 * 8. Fragmented Society, Fragmented Musicals 269 * 9. "A Recycled Culture," Nostalgia and Spectacle 305 *10. New Voices, New Perspectives 331 * Appendices -- Appendix A: Broadway Musical Production, 1919-1929 360 -- Appendix B: Long-Running Diversionary Musicals. 1929-1938 362 -- Appendix C: Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1939-1945 364 -- Appendix D: Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1946-1960 366 -- Appendix E: Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1960-1969 369 -- Appendix F: Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1969-1979 371 -- Appendix G: Long-Running Diversionary Musicals, 1979-2000 372 * Sources Cited 375 * Index 391