The Idea of America

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.03.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Artistic Principles: What is this Unit About?
  2. Setting the Stage: the Numbers, the School, and Theatrical Culture
  3. The Audience: Who Can Use This Unit?
  4. Understudies: Defining Freedom
  5. Spotlight: The Shows and their Freedom
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Appendix
  8. Works Cited
  9. Endnotes

American Musicals, American Freedom

Michael Husni

Published September 2011

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Endnotes

  1. Knapp, Raymond. The American musical and the formation of national identity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005, 8.
  2. Foner, Eric. The story of American freedom . New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, xv.
  3. "Appoquinimink School District." Appoquinimink School District. http://www.apposchooldistrict.com (accessed July 20, 2011).
  4. "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Middletown High School." National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education. http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&State=10&SchoolType=1&SchoolType=2&SchoolType=3&SchoolType=4&SpecificSchlTypes=all&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-
  5. "Avalon Project - Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776." Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp (accessed May 23, 2011).
  6. Campbell, Colin. "Consumption and the Rhetorics of Need and Want." Design History 11, no. 3 (1998): 237.
  7. Campbell, 237.
  8. Knapp, 162.
  9. Foner, 11-12.
  10. Douglass, Frederick . "Africans in America/Part 4/Frederick Douglass speech." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html (accessed May 23, 2011).
  11. Berlin, Isaiah. Four essays on liberty . [Pbk. ed. Oxford [u.a.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.
  12. Carlson, Marvin A.. Theatre semiotics: signs of life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, 110.
  13. Knapp, 120.
  14. Jones, John Bush. Our musicals, ourselves: a social history of the American musical theater. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, 2003, 58.
  15. Knapp, 123-4.
  16. Rodgers, Richard, Oscar Hammerstein, and Lynn Riggs. Oklahoma!: the complete book and lyrics of the Broadway musical. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2010, 51.
  17. Rodgers, 23.
  18. Knapp, 127.
  19. Wilson, Woodrow. "Americanism and the Foreign-Born." APStudent.com: U.S. History for AP Students. http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1901/amrcnism.htm (accessed May 23, 2011).
  20. Rodgers, 82.
  21. Knapp, 123.
  22. Rodgers, 119.
  23. Knapp, 205.
  24. Laurents, Arthur, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim. West side story a musical based on a conception of Jerome Robbins. New York: Theatre Arts, 1959, 36.
  25. Laurents, 37.
  26. Laurents, 42.
  27. Laurents, 50.
  28. Laurents, 52.
  29. Jones, 248.
  30. Knapp, 155.
  31. Jones, 249.
  32. Knapp, 157.
  33. Rangi and Rado, 40, as in Jones, 249.
  34. Knapp, 161.
  35. "Hair Lyrics, Hair the Musical." BROADWAY MUSICALS >> Musicals Lyrics !!. http://www.allmusicals.com/h/hair.htm (accessed July 20, 2011).
  36. Jones, 250.
  37. Hollmann, Mark, and Greg Kotis. Urinetown: the musical. New York: Faber and Faber, 2003, 71.
  38. Hollmann, 97.
  39. Hollmann, 98.
  40. Hollmann, 79.
  41. Hollmann, 50.
  42. Hollmann, 49.
  43. Hollmann, 52.
  44. Hollmann, 99.

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