| Description |
viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff ; The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris ; The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell ; The Animated film musical / Susan Smith ; The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick -- Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek ; Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds ; Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman ; Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson ; Acting / John M. Clum ; Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp ; Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey. |
| Summary |
The American musical is a complex, multivalent, collaborative form of popular and commercial art and entertainment, which both reflects and influences culture and society. The chapters in this book explore the various media in which American musicals are created and the people who work to bring a musical to life. The first part of the volume includes chapters that examine new stage musicals and revivals, film musicals, television musicals, and animated musicals. The second part of the collection examines the various theatre workers' jobs that are crucial to musicals' production in performance: producers, theatre owners, orchestrators and arrangers, directors, designers, actors, singers, and choreographers and dancers."--Backcover. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
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United States. |
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Musicals -- Production and direction -- United States -- History.
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Musicals -- Production and direction. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Subject |
Musicals. |
| Added Author |
Knapp, Raymond, editor.
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Morris, Mitchell, 1961- editor.
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Wolf, Stacy Ellen, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190877828 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0190877820 |
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9780190877842 (epub) |
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