| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 470 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Originally published 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-447) and index. |
| Summary |
The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. --From publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Personal genres. The Viennese connection : Franz Lehár and American operetta (The merry widow (1907). Naughty Marietta (1910). Little Mary Sunshine (1959). A little night music (1973)) -- The movie musical (Singin' in the rain (film, 1952). Stormy weather (film, 1943) and Bamboozled (film, 2000). Meet me in St. Louis (film, 1944). Moulin Rouge (film, 2001) and Chicago (film, 2002)). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
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United States. |
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Musicals -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Musicals -- Social aspects. |
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Personality and culture.
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Personality and culture. |
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Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musical films. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Musicals. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Knapp, Raymond. American musical and the performance of personal identity. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2009 9780691141053 (OCoLC)276340707 |
| ISBN |
9781400832682 electronic book |
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1400832683 electronic book |
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1282692127 |
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9781282692121 |
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0691125244 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691125244 (alkaline paper) |
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0691141053 |
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9780691141053 |
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