Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Turning the World Upside Down
Nancy J. Legge, Jacob Justice, and Luke Winslow
Section I: Revelations About History
- “If You Had to Choose”: Hamilton, Public Memory, and the Hamilton-Jefferson Rivalry
Talya Peri Slaw and Jacob Justice
- Washington Says Good-bye: Examining ‘One Last Time’ through Public Memory
Jessica L. Gehrke
- The Rhetorical Significance of John Laurens in Hamilton: An American Musical
Nancy J. Legge
- Da Da Dada Da: The Discourse of the Mad Monarch
Sarah Mayberry Scott
Section II: Revelations About Race
5Casting as a Rhetorical Act: Color-Purposeful Casting and Hamilton’s Anti-White
Casting Call
Ailea G. Merriam-Pigg
6Hamilton’s Revolutionary Aesthetic: Race, Hip hop, and the American Style
Luke Winslow and Jonathan Veal
7Hamilton, Social Revolution, and the Black Lives Matter Movement
Caleb George Hubbard
Section III: Revelations About Socio-Political Issues
8Immigrants: Getting the Job Done Then and Now
Judith P. Roberts
9The Sphere Where it Happens: Reading Hamilton’s Representations of the Public/Private
Sphere as Gendered, Restraining, and Revolutionary
Erika M. Thomas
Section IV: Revelations About Broadway
10Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells the Story: Hip-Hope, Antagonist-Narrators, and the
Impact of Musical Genre on Storytelling
Max Dosser and Kevin Pabst
11Aaron Burr vs. Mike Pence: Curtain Speeches and Controversy
Ryan Louis
12Hamilton and the Genre of the Politicized Broadway Musical: Following the Rhetorical Tradition, Twisting the Rhetorical Tradition
Theodore F. Sheckels
Index
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