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Harrigan & Hart • Presented sketches of different ethnic figures, placed firmly in urban American setting. Helped introduce immigrants to America and America to immigrants. • Musical comedies featured characters & situations taken from everyday life of NYC’s lower classes (themes: jobs, recruiting, politics & voting, criminals & wrongdoing, language issues of immigrants, tenement housing, landlord-tenant disputes, social mobility) • Ex. “Mulligan Guard” series
Give My Regards to Broadway… George M. Cohan, “Harrigan,” from 50 Miles from Boston, 1907
Tin Pan Alley & “Irishness” in Popular Song Irish tenor John McCormack at New York Hippodrome, 1915-1916
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