National Identity and the British Musical: From Blood Brothers to Cinderella

Contents

• Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1. Say It's Just a Show: The Musical as a British Cultural Artefact
• 2. ‘Kyan Wait to get to Inglan’: National Identity and the British Musical
• 3. Solidarity Forever!: Depictions of the Class Divide
• 4. Too Many Years Lost in His Story: The Absent Female Voice
• 5. A Cat So Clever: Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Reinvention of the British Musical
• 6. I Can Smile at the Old Days: Nostalgia and the British Musical
• 7. We Can Turn Over and Start Again…: The Way Forward Selected Bibliography