| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xv, 412 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music |
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-385) and index. |
| Contents |
Adaptations and transformations: before 1940. American musical theatre before the twentieth century / Katherine K. Preston ; Non-English-language musical theatre in the United States / John Koegel ; Birth pangs, growing pains and sibling rivalry: musical theatre in New York, 1900-1920 / Orly Leah Krasner ; American and British operetta in the 1920s: romance, nostalgia and adventure / William A. Everett ; Images of African Americans : African-American musical theatre, Showboat, and Porgy and Bess / John Graziano ; The melody (and the words) linger on: American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s / Geoffrey Block -- Maturations and formulations: 1940-1970. We said we wouldn't look back: British musical theatre, 1935-1960 / John Snelson ; The coming of the musical play: Rodgers and Hammerstein / Ann Sears ; The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s / Thomas L. Riis and Ann Sears ; Musical sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein / Bruce D. McClung and Paul R. Laird -- 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 ; From Hair to Rent: is rock a four-letter word on Broadway? / Scott Warfield ; The megamusical: the creation, internationalisation and impact of a genre / Paul Prece and William A. Everett ; Something borrowed, something blue: the marriage of the musical and Europe / Judith Sebesta ; New horizons: the musical at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Bud Coleman -- Legacies and transformations. Why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden?: examining the film musical / Graham Wood ; Revisiting classic musicals: revivals, film, television and recordings / Jessica Sternfeld ; The creation of a Broadway musical: Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman, and Wicked / Paul R. Laird. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- History and criticism.
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Musical theater -- History.
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| Added Author |
Everett, William A., 1962-
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Laird, Paul R.
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| ISBN |
9780521680844 (pbk.) |
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0521680840 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 12131697 |
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