The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

The American musical, though one of the United States' most popular and emblematic musical genres, has long been neglected as a topic for academic study. Only recently have scholars taken up the serious study of musicals, and serious criticism and commentary available to non-professionals is still sparse. The Oxford Handbook of the Amreican Musical is designed to be used by students in all disciplines concerned with the genre, as well as non-academic listeners who want to enrich their experience as audience members. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to important concepts and terms that shape the history of the musical as a genre, and offers ways to reflect on the specific choices that shape the musicals and their performance. The Handbook offers ways of thinking about musicals that will be of interest to scholars and students as well as performers of all kinds.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-17
Mått:249 x 183 x 48 mm
Vikt:938 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Handbooks
Antal sidor:480
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195385946

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Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology at UCLA. His five books include Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs (2003), The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (2005; winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism), The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (2006), and Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (2008, co-edited with UCLA alumni Steven Baur and Jacqueline Warwick). He has published in most of the major journals in musicology and in several book collections on these and a wide range of additional topics, including Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, nationalism, musical allusion, music and identity, and film music.

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The second book of the three-volume set will most interest producers and directors of musicals.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction (Stacy Wolf) ; I. Historiography ; 1. Narratives and Values: Stories of the Musical (Mitchell Morris) ; 2. Texts and Authors (Jim Lovensheimer) ; 3. Marian Waltzes while Harold Marches: Musical Styles and Types in the American Musical (Paul Laird) ; 4. Evolution of Dance in the Golden Age of the American "Book Musical" (Liza Gennaro) ; II. Transformations ; 5. Minstrelsy and Theatrical Miscegenation (Thomas L. Riis) ; 6. Toward the First "Golden Age": Tin Pan Alley Songs on Stage and Screen before World War II (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris) ; 7. Integration (Geoffrey Block) ; 8. After the "Golden Age" (Jessica Sternfeld & Elizabeth L. Wollman) ; III. Media ; 9. Theatre (Tamsen Wolff) ; 10. The Filmed Musical: Fissures and Fusions between Stage and Screen (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris) ; 11. The Television Musical: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Robynn J. Stilwell) ; 12. The Animated Film Musical (Susan Smith) ; 13. Broadway on Records: The Evolution of the Original Cast Album (George