Julia L. Foulkes is professor of history at the New School in New York and the author of Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey and To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal.
"A Place for Us tells a new story about one of US theater's most
important plays. A skillful historian, Julia Foulkes delves deeply
into the archive to recover the details and dynamics of West Side
Story from its conception and production to its film adaptation and
global circulation. In doing so, she connects that story to the
contemporaneous events and cultural anxieties that made the musical
both timely and timeless."
--Shane Vogel, author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret
"An excellent account of West Side Story and its central role as a
play and movie in American musical history and in American culture
more generally. What makes the book unique is its focus on New York
and the urban experience as central to the story's appeal at a time
when the city was undergoing massive urban renewal, particularly on
the West Side, throwing the urban poor into ethnic and racial
conflict over rapidly decreasing turf. A lively, well-written book
that will appeal to fans of theater and American history
alike."--Lewis A. Erenberg, author of Swingin' the Dream
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