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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

Paul R. Laird
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Elizabeth A. Wells
Affiliation:
Mount Allison University, Canada
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Music Examples

  3. List of Contributors

  4. Preface

  5. Acknowledgements

  6. Part IBefore West Side Story

    1. 1Performing Social Relevance in the American Musical before West Side Story

      William A. Everett

    2. 2Bernstein on Broadway

      Helen Smith

    3. 3In Anticipation of West Side Story: The Confluence of Styles, Genres, and Influences in the Early Choreography of Jerome Robbins

      Phoebe Rumsey

    4. 4Arthur Laurents before West Side Story

      John M. Clum

    5. 5Sondheim the Kid

      Steve Swayne

    6. 6‘For a Small Fee in America’: Producing West Side Story

      Laura MacDonald

  7. Part IIThe Work Itself and Its Context

    1. 7The Score: Creation, Orchestration, Unification, and Analysis

      Paul R. Laird

    2. 8Un-Gendering ‘Somewhere’: Women’s Agency and Redemption in West Side Story

      Katherine Baber

    3. 9Shakespeare in the City: Adapting Romeo and Juliet

      Jane Barnette

    4. 10West Side Story and the Hispanic Problem

      Ernesto Acevedo-MuÑoz

    5. 11West Side Story and the Intersections of Class, Colourism, and Racism

      Erica K. Argyropoulos

    6. 12The Real Gang History of New York

      Elizabeth A. Wells

  8. Part IIIThe Legacy

    1. 13West Side Story and the Voice

      Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins

    2. 14West Side Story / Suite: Jerome Robbins’s Choreo-Directing on Broadway, Hollywood, and Ballet Stages

      Dustyn Martincich

    3. 15Exoticism, Race, and the Broadway Musical in the ‘City of Waltzes’: Marcel Prawy’s 1968 West Side Story Production at the Vienna Volksoper

      Martin Nedbal

    4. 16West Side Story Abroad as an American Icon

      Emily Abrams Ansari, Anne Searcy, Paul R. Laird, Gonzalo Fernández Monte, Elizabeth A. Wells, and Aino Kukkonen

  9. Select Bibliography

  10. Index of Songs

  11. General Index

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  • Contents
  • Edited by Paul R. Laird, University of Kansas, Elizabeth A. Wells, Mount Allison University, Canada
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to <i>West Side Story</i>
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
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  • Contents
  • Edited by Paul R. Laird, University of Kansas, Elizabeth A. Wells, Mount Allison University, Canada
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to <i>West Side Story</i>
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
Available formats
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