Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940
- Author: Koegel, John
Deep-delving. . . . Readable and entertaining. . . . A tour guide down a forgotten byway of the American immigrant experience, where life, at least sometimes, really was a cabaret. -- John W.... — More…
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Contents
- German American Theater and Society
- Early Struggles, Operatic Beginnings, and the Development of the German Theater in New York City, 1840-1872
- Musical Farce and Folk Play at the Germania Theater, 1872-1883
- Ethnic Spaces: Theatrical Entertainments in German Beer Gardens and Concert Halls
- An Orgy of Operetta: The Thalia and Amberg Theaters, 1879-1893
- Drama on a Higher Plane: The Irving Place Theater, 1893-1918
- German American Performers
- The "Dutch" Act: German American Theatrical and Literary Representations
- Philipp's Germania Theater Musical Comedies, 1893-1902
- The German American Musical Abroad: Philipp in Berlin, 1903-1907
- From Klein Deutschland to Broadway: Philipp's Works, 1907-1914
- Divided Loyalties: World War I and Its Aftermath
- The Decline of the German American Stage in the 1920s and 1930s
- Appendixes
- Archives and Collections Consulted
- Key to Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index