Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton

Luke Winslow is assistant professor of rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication at Baylor University.Nancy J. Legge is professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion at Idaho State University.Jacob Justice is assistant professor of speech communication and the director of forensics in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Turning the World Upside Down Nancy J. Legge, Jacob Justice, and Luke WinslowSection I: Revelations About History1“If You Had to Choose”: Hamilton, Public Memory, and the Hamilton-Jefferson RivalryTalya Peri Slaw and Jacob Justice2Washington Says Good-bye: Examining ‘One Last Time’ through Public MemoryJessica L. Gehrke3The Rhetorical Significance of John Laurens in Hamilton: An American MusicalNancy J. Legge4Da Da Dada Da: The Discourse of the Mad MonarchSarah Mayberry ScottSection II: Revelations About Race5Casting as a Rhetorical Act: Color-Purposeful Casting and Hamilton’s Anti-White Casting CallAilea G. Merriam-Pigg6Hamilton’s Revolutionary Aesthetic: Race, Hip hop, and the American StyleLuke Winslow and Jonathan Veal7Hamilton, Social Revolution, and the Black Lives Matter MovementCaleb George Hubbard Section III: Revelations About Socio-Political Issues8Immigrants: Getting the Job Done Then and NowJudith P. Ro

This wide ranging study integrates a number of important fields: popular culture, American history, and musical theatre among others. It uses connections between these disciplines to show some important ways in which the political issues that engross our country are handled rhetorically through cultural artifacts. This is an important, integrative book.