Hamilton, History and Hip-Hop: Essays on an American Musical

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Writing, Erasing and Versioning Hamilton
• Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
• I. “Grow into more of a phenomenon”: Hamilton as History and Cultural Experience
• The Battle for Hamilton: Then and
• Michael A. Genovese
• “Watching the afterbirth of a nation, watching the tension grow”: Meta-Hamilton and the ­Citizen-Artist During Two Presidencies
• Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
• “This is not a moment, it’s a movement”: Why Millennials Are “Hamiltrash”
• Vicki L. Hoskins
• II. “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?” Race and Class in Hamilton
• Hamilton Hype and Hamilton Hate: In Dahomey, A Raisin in the Sun, and a Genealogy of Race in American Popular Theater
• Megan E. Geigner
• Parodying Through Song: How Comic Devices in King George III’s Songs in Hamilton Challenge Contemporary Dispositions About the Symbolic Value of Youth Culture
• Evi Stamatiou
• “The villain in your history”: The Complications of ­Color-Conscious Casting in Hamilton’s America
• Laura London Waringer
• III. “Who tells your story?” Exclusive Inclusivity and Whose Story Gets Told
• “A woman who has never been satisfied”: A Feminist Critique of Hamilton
• Alexa Schreiber
• “Compel him to include female agency in the sequel,” or Gender Construction in Hamilton
• Lisa Quoresimo
• “Here comes the general”: An Examination of the Depiction of the African American Man as the Father of America in Hamilton
• Aaron Brown
• IV. “Even though we started at the very same time…” Comparative Hamiltons
• “You hear that music in the air?” Consciousness of Music in In the Heights and Hamilton
• Dan Rubins
• Contextualizing ­Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Hamilton Within ­Hip-Hop Theater History
• Priscilla Maria Page
• Race, Casting, and Politics: A Comparative Study of ­Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop
• Anne Stefani
• “Everybody’s got the right to their dreams”: The Violent Pursuit of the American Dream in Assassins and Hamilton
• Stephanie Lim
• White Supremacy and ­Hyper-Masculinity: Hamilton, Hip-Hop and Homicide
• Alisa C. Roost
• Conclusion: A Hamilton Evolution
• Daniel Banks
• Works Cited
• About the Contributors
• Index