Show Boat - Decker, Todd (Associate Professor and Head of Musicology, Associate Professor and Head of Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis)

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.