Yankee Doodle Dandy : George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage

Oxford University Press Inc

Yankee Doodle DandyGeorge M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth T. Craft\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197550403, 978-0197550403\nSynopsis\nPlaywright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like \""You're a Grand Old Flag\"" and \""Give My Regards to Broadway,\"" he has been called \""the father of musical comedy,\"" and his statue stands in the heart of the New York theater district. Cohan's early twentieth-century shows and songs captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. He was an Irish American who had the audacity to represent himself as the Yankee Doodle emblem of the nation, a vaudevillian who had the nerve to unapologetically climb the ranks and package his lower-brow style as Broadway. \n\nIn Yankee Doodle Dandy, t.