| Description |
vii, 167 pages : music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references after each essay. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Cultural musicology and the American musical / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- From Butterfly to Saigon: Europe, America, and "success" / Wilfrid Mellers -- There's no business like show business: a speculative reading of the Broadway musical / Carey Wall -- From gold diggers to bar girls: a selective history of the American movie musical / Ralph Willett -- Holy yumpin' Yiminy: Scandinavian immigrant stereotypes in the early twentieth century American musical / Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey -- Movies in disguise: negotiating censorship and patriarchy through the dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers / Sue Rickard -- Brush up your Shakespeare: the case of Kiss me, Kate / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- Who loves you, Porgy? The debates surrounding Gershwin's musical / David Horn -- West Side story revisited / Wilfrid Mellers -- Sondheim and the art that has no name / Stephen Banfield. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
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United States. |
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Dramatic music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Dramatic music. |
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Motion pictures and music -- United States.
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Motion pictures and music. |
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Musicals. |
| Added Author |
Lawson-Peebles, Robert.
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| Added Title |
American musical |
| ISBN |
0859894053 paperback £11.95 : Formerly CIP |
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