Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: There’s No Place Like Home 1
5. 1. The Shtetls, Shund, and Shows of Musicals 18
6. 2. The Musicals of Black Folk: Race Cinema and the Black-Cast Musicals of 1929 45
7. 3. “Not a Musical in Any Sense of the Word”: Allá en el Rancho Grande Crosses the Border 72
8. 4. “Our Home Town”: The Hollywood Folk Musical 99
9. 5. “Tahiti, Rome, and Mason City, Iowa”: Musical Migrants in the Postwar Era 125
10. 6. “Ease on Down the Road”: Folk Musicals of the Ethnic Revival 152
11. 7. Home Is Where the Audience Is: The Sing-Along 185
12. Conclusion: Beyond the Rainbow 202
13. Notes 209
14. Bibliography 241
15. Index 251
16. About the Author 261