The American musical and the formation of national identity
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Author
Publication
2004 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
90,250 words, Guess
Page Count
361 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3301982M
- ISBN-100691118647
- OCLC Control Number54007249
- Library of Congress Control Number2004041469
- LibraryThing1033236
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- Goodreads4629327
Classifications
- DDC782.1/4/0973
- LCCML1711 .K6 2004
Description
"Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American burlesque and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, and other song types. It then proceeds thematically, focusing primarily on fifteen mainstream shows from the twentieth century, with discucssions of such notable productions as Show Boat (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Pacific Overtures (1976), and Assassins (1991)."--BOOK JACKET.
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