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[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the Broadway opera, the book musical and other forms...Further, Mates introduces readers to inside stuff--the various types of musical performers. Variety American musical theatre has developed as an id...

?[Mates] has achieved ... a fresh and animated picture that conveys very nicely the flavor of eighteenth-century theatrical and musical life in the colonies and the young states.?-The New York Times Book Review

Mates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critical reactions to popular theatrical forms of musical entertainment. He introduces the reader to various types of theatrical companies, the changing repertory, and the ...