Gender Differences In Music

As if these weren’t enough, the story of the musical is also the story of its creators and performers, men and women and people of all genders from every aspect of American, and foreign society, who came together, often under the most invidious circumstances, to create something that transcended their differences. Refugees came together with native sons and daughters; task masters worked with dissipated alcoholics; white producers championed black performers and they turned right around and made fortunes for those producers; artists fled financial failure for the blandishments of the lucrative worlds of film and television and then fled right back to the stage; homosexual artists created enduring models of heterosexual romance and heterosexual