Histories of the musical:

"The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals...

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Other Authors: Knapp, Raymond 1952- (Editor), Morris, Mitchell 1961- (Editor), Wolf, Stacy 1950- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2018]
Series:An Oxford handbook of the American musical volume 1
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Summary:"The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In spite of their unapologetic commercialism, though, musicals have achieved supreme artistry and have influenced culture as much as if not more than any other art form in America, including avant-garde and high art on the one hand, and the full range of popular and commercial art on the other. Reflecting, refracting, and shaping U.S. culture since the early twentieth century, musicals converse with shifting dynamics of gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, and the very question of what it means to be American and to be human."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:viii, 227 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:9780190877767

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