Reviews

Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class, David Savran (2009) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (x+326 pp.), ISBN 978-0-472-11692-8 (hbk), $35.00

Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 16951705, Kathryn Lowerre (2009) [Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance], Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, xvi + 412 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-6614-1 (hbk), 60.00

America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia and Michael Lasser (2006) New York: Routledge, (328 pp.), ISBN 978-0-415-99052-3, (pbk), $21.95.

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story, Nigel Simeone (2009) [Landmarks in Music Since 1950], Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate (177 pp.), ISBN 978-0-7546-6484-0 (hbk), 35.00