The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8574082M
- ISBN-139781555536237
- ISBN-101555536239
- OCLC Control Number55679500
- OCLC Control Numberrisefallofbroadw0000gran
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004014100
- LibraryThing473915
- Goodreads2970031
Classifications
- LCCML1711.8.N3 G727 2004
Description
"Mark N. Grant thoroughly investigates all aspects of the Broadway musical as he traces the transformation of singing and melody, libretto and lyric writing, dance rhythms, sound design, and choreography and stage direction through three distinct eras: the formative period (1866-1927), the golden age (1927-1966), and the fall (1967 to the present). He explores how and why the unsophisticated genre of pre-1920s musical comedy evolved into the creative, innovative, and immensely popular theater produced by the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and then steadily faded as a significant entertainment genre in American culture."--Jacket.
First Sentence
Irving Berlin. Jerome Kern. Richard Rodgers. Cole Porter. George Gershwin. Harold Arlen. Arthur Schwartz. Burton Lane. Harry Warren. Frank Loesser. Harold Rome. Vincent Youmans. Pick your own list of the great standards these and other song composers of the golden age created for the Broadway musical.
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