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"Nutcracker" nation : how an Old World ballet became a Christmas tradition in the New World

This entertaining book offers new insights into North America's love affair with The Nutcracker. It traces the ballet's history, describes its many variegated productions and explains its allure as a way for Americans to tell a story about their communal values and themselves.
Print Book, English, 2004
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2004
History
256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780300105995, 9780300097467, 0300105991, 0300097468
1013802537
Originally published: 2003