Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical

AvElizabeth L. Wollman,Jr.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical provides the perfect introductory text for students of theatre, music and cultural studies. It traces the history and development of the industry and art form in America with a particular focus on its artistic and commercial development in New York City from the early 20th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on commercial, artistic and cultural events that influenced the Broadway musical for an ever-renewing, increasingly broad and diverse audience: the Gilded Age, the Great Depression, the World War II era, the British invasion in the 1980s and the media age at the turn of the twenty-first century. Supplementary essays by leading scholars provide detailed focus on the American musical’s production and preservation, as well as its influence on daily life on the local, national, and international levels. For students, these essays provide models of varying approaches and interpretation, equipping them with the skills and understanding to develop their own analysis of key productions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-21
Mått:138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Companions
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472513380

Utforska kategorier

Populärmusik inom Kultur
Teater inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Elizabeth L. Wollman is Associate Professor of Music at Baruch College, City University of New York, in New York City, USA.

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Elizabeth L. Wollman manages to create subject of many academic dreams: a scholarly text with mass-market appeal. Meticulously researched and bristling with citations, A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical has the dual feature of potentially being heavily cited at MATC or ATHE, while simultaneously being quoted by Jennifer Ashley Tepper at BroadwayCon or on Twitter. The book's greatest strength is its tone, which is key to the book's dual marketability as a classroom text or a theatre lover's enrichment reading.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1 The Birth of (the Popular Culture of) a Nation: Stage Entertainment in a New LandChapter 2 The Civil War Era to the Gilded AgeChapter 3 The Early 20th CenturyChapter 4 The Great Depression to World War IIChapter 5 World War II to 1960Chapter 6 We’ve Surely Got Trouble: The 1960s and 1970sChapter 7 The Megamusical to HamiltonChapter 8 Other Angles: Different Approaches to the American Stage MusicalPutting It Together: A Step-By-Step Look At Musicals from the Page to the Stage, by Robert Meffe (San Diego State University, USA)Making Musicals for Serious Pleasure, by Stacy Wolf (Princeton Univesity, USA)Off Off Off Off Broadway: Musicals and the Regional Theater, by Laura MacDonald (University of Portsmouth, UK) Today, Broadway; Tomorrow, the World: The “American” Musical and Globalization, by Jessica Sternfeld (Chapman University, USA)Ways of Knowing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying the Stage Musical, by Elizabeth Titrington Craft (Harvard University, USA) and Joanna Dee Das (Williams College, USA)NotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex