Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created "Show Boat" i[...]

Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century. Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in "Music Makes Me", Todd Decker argues that Astaire's work as a dancer and choreographer - particularly in the realm of tap dancing - made a [...]