| Description |
236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Populäre Kultur und Musik,
1869-8417 ;
Band 17
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Populäre Kultur und Musik ; Bd. 17.
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| Contents |
Grösse als Erhabenheit : einführende Gedanken zu Bernard Herrmann / Gregor Herzfeld -- Crafting the soundworld of American opera, 1910-1912 / Aaron Ziegel --"Recognizably American" : Aaron Coplands The Second Hurricane (1936/37) als musikalische Theatralisierung des Politischen im New Deal / Marcus Gräser -- Operatic conventions on Broadway, 1935-1960 / Christopher Lynch -- Toward an American folk opera : performing primitivism and Negro folk culture in Hall Johnson's Run, Little Chillun! (1933) / Micah Wittmer -- Oper als Strategie der kompositorischen Selbstinszenierung und Wertbegriff : Street Scene (1946) und West Side Story (1957) / Nils Grosch -- The Sound of Music (1959) : "A Great American Opera"? / Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild -- Glass avec Fukuyama, oder, Philip Glass' The Voyage (1992) und das Ende der Geschichte / Mauro Fosco Bertola -- About the task of adapting a movie classic for the opera stage : on André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire (1998) and Brief Encounter (2009) / Frédéric Döhl -- Sense and sensibility : music on stage in What Next? / John Link -- Libby Larsen's Barnum's Bird : the "Great American Opera" / Sharon Mirchandani -- "The Mysteries of Selma, Alabama" : re-telling and remembrance in David Lang's The Difficulty of Crossing a Field / Amy Bauer. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language |
German and English text. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
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United States. |
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Opera -- United States.
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Opera. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Subject |
Musicals. |
| Added Author |
Döhl, Frédéric, editor.
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Herzfeld, Gregor, editor.
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| Added Title |
Tendenzen des amerikanischen Musiktheaters |
| Other Form: |
9783830981244 (online) |
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(GyWOH)har160386848 |
| ISBN |
9783830931249 (paperback) |
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3830931247 (paperback) |
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9783830981244 (online) |
| Standard No. |
9783830931249 |
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