... This chapter addresses how black musical theatre singers and their contemporaries voiced the young, glamorous American girl for the Broadway stage in the 1950s and 1960s. In the decades prior, Lena Horne had established—by different means from her carefree, white contemporary Mary Martin...

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... Examining the influence of the blues shouter’s vocal sound on what became the Broadway belter’s technique, this chapter showcases a line of historical singing lessons, the contexts and moments in which singers taught particular songs to one another and in which vocal technique was also part...