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Profile

Elizabeth T. Craft is a musicologist and cultural historian who explores how music conveys sociopolitical values and constructs national identity, focusing especially on musical theater from the early twentieth century through the present. Her book Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines how Cohan—a composer, lyricist, playwright, director, producer, and star performer—shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy, the institution of Broadway, and the American cultural landscape in the early twentieth century. Her work has also appeared in American Music, Studies in Musical Theatre, The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies, The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, The Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical, and Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900–2000.

Recent Courses

• Music and Politics in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Music History III: Late 19th Century to the Present
• Music of the United States
• Musical Theater and Society
• Opera Studies
• Performing Race on Broadway

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Selected Publications

Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.

“The Sound of the Show: An Interview with Alex Lacamoire.” In The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies, ed. Bañagale. New York: Oxford University Press, published online in 2023.

“‘Can We ‘Leave Behind the World We Know’? Exploring Race and Ethnicity in the Musicals of Lin-Manuel Miranda.” In The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, ed. Sternfeld and Wollman. New York: Routledge, 2019.

“‘A Great American Service’: George M. Cohan, the Stage, and the Nation in Yankee Doodle Dandy.” In The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, ed. McHugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Headfirst into an Abyss: The Politics and Political Reception of Hamilton.” Special issue: Hamilton. American Music 36, no. 4 (2018).          

“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying the Stage Musical,” co-authored with Joanna Dee Das. In The Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical by Elizabeth L. Wollman. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.

“Nadia Boulanger and Her American Composition Students: An Exhibition,” co-authored with Sarah Adams. In Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900–2000, ed. Meyer, Oja, Rathert, and Shreffler. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2014.

“‘Is This What It Takes Just to Make It to Broadway?!’: Marketing In the Heights in the Twenty-First Century.” Special Issue: “A Mark, a Yen, a Buck, or a Pound: Money and the Stage Musical at the Millennium.” Studies in Musical Theatre 5, no. 1 (2011).