Status Updates From Unfinished Show Business: B...

This book is so weird. Its basic premise - that musicals are open texts that are not integrated at all but are capacious and easily altered - is now taken as fact. But Kirle spends most of his time simply giving a history of the genre. There’s a long chapter on how Jewish use of blackface, like, isn’t really that bad, and now we are in a long side road about the genre’s incorporation of satire.

So far the argument is solid but the style is very, very obnoxious.