| Description |
xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-289) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Adaptations and transformations : before 1940 American musical theatre before the twentieth century / Katherine K. Preston -- Birth pangs, growing pains and sibling rivalry : musical theatre in New York, 1900-1920 / Orly Leah Krasner -- Romance, nostalgia and nevermore : American and British operetta in the 1920s / William A. Everett -- Images of African Americans : African-American musical theatre, Show Boat and Porgy and Bess / John Graziano -- Melody (and the words) linger on : American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s / Geoffrey Block -- |
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pt. II. Maturations and formulations : 1940-1970 'We said we wouldn't look back' : British musical theatre, 1935-1960 / John Snelson -- Coming of the musical play : Rodgers and Hammerstein / Ann Sears -- Successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s / Thomas L. Riis and Ann Sears with William A. Everett -- Musical sophistication on Broadway : Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein / bruce d. mcclung and Paul R. Laird -- |
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pt. III. Evolutions and integrations : after 1970 Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider / Jim Lovensheimer -- Choreographers, directors and the fully integrated musical / Paul R. Laird Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical / Graham Wood -- From Hair to Rent : is 'rock' a four-letter word on Broadway? / Scott Warfield -- Megamusical and beyond : the creation, internationalisation and impact of a genre / Paul Prece and William A. Everett. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
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Musical theater -- History.
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Musical theater. |
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History. |
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Musicals. |
| Added Author |
Everett, William A., 1962-
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Laird, Paul R.
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| Added Title |
Musical |
| ISBN |
0521791898 |
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9780521791892 |
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0521796393 paperback |
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9780521796392 paperback |
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