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  title info:
    title: Pal Joey
    sub title: the history of a heel
  name:
    name part: Lindberg, Julianne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "The History of a Heel chronicles the genesis, influence, and significance of Rodgers and Hart's classic musical comedy Pal Joey (1940). When Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters and situation were depraved. The setting was caustically realistic. Its female lead was frankly sexual and yet not purely comic. A narratively-driven dream ballet closed the first act, begging audiences to take seriously the inner life and desires of a confirmed heel. Although the show appears on many top-ten lists surveying the so-called "Golden Age," it is a controversial classic; its legacy is tied both to the fashionable scandal that it provoked, and, retrospectively, to the uncommon attention it paid to characterization and narrative cohesion. Through an archive-driven investigation of the show and its music, History of a Heel offers insight into the historical moment during which Joey was born, and to the process of genre classification, canon formation, and the ensuing critical debates related to musical and theatrical maturity. More broadly, I argue that the critique and commentary on class and gender conventions in Pal Joey reveals a uniquely American concern over status, class mobility, and progressive gender roles in the pre-war eraThe History of a Heel chronicles the genesis, influence, and significance of Rodgers and Hart's classic musical comedy Pal Joey (1940). When Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters and situation were depraved. The setting was caustically realistic. Its female lead was frankly sexual and yet not purely comic. A narratively-driven dream ballet closed the first act, begging audiences to take seriously the inner life and desires of a confirmed heel. Although the show appears on many top-ten lists surveying the so-called "Golden Age," it is a controversial classic; its legacy is tied both to t…
  table of contents: Introduction: "a foul well" -- O'Hara, the heel: from short story to script -- Rodgers and Hart's boldest venture: working relationships and collaborative processes -- Digging for dirt: inside the club -- I could write a book (musical): the book numbers -- The women of Pal Joey -- Joey dances -- History of a heel: the 1952 revival -- Pal Joey goes to Hollywood.
  note: Julianne Lindberg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rodgers, Richard
      name part: 1902-1979
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Pal Joey (Rodgers, Richard)
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Comédies musicales
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
  subject:
    topic: Genres & Styles
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC
  subject:
    topic: Theater
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
  classification: ML2054
  classification: 782.14
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Pal Joey
    name:
      name part: Lindberg, Julianne.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1137811062
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    title info:
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  identifier: 9780190051211
  identifier: 0190051213
  identifier: 9780190051204
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  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 200404
    record change date: 20260319182119.8
    record identifier: in00005718399
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng