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Author:   Raymond Knapp (Professor in Musicology, Professor in Musicology, UCLA) ,  Mitchell Morris (\Associate Professor of Musicology, \Associate Professor of Musicology, UCLA) ,  Stacy Wolf (Associate Professor, Program in Theatre and Dance, Associate Professor, Program in Theatre and Dance, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.90cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 18.30cm
Weight:   0.938kg
ISBN:  

9780195385946

ISBN 10:   0195385942
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   17 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction (Stacy Wolf) I. Historiography 1. Narratives and Values: Stories of the Musical (Mitchell Morris) 2. Texts and Authors (Jim Lovensheimer) 3. Marian Waltzes while Harold Marches: Musical Styles and Types in the American Musical (Paul Laird) 4. Evolution of Dance in the Golden Age of the American ""Book Musical"" (Liza Gennaro) II. Transformations 5. Minstrelsy and Theatrical Miscegenation (Thomas L. Riis) 6. Toward the First ""Golden Age"": Tin Pan Alley Songs on Stage and Screen before World War II (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris) 7. Integration (Geoffrey Block) 8. After the ""Golden Age"" (Jessica Sternfeld & Elizabeth L. Wollman) III. Media 9. Theatre (Tamsen Wolff) 10. The Filmed Musical: Fissures and Fusions between Stage and Screen (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris) 11. The Television Musical: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Robynn J. Stilwell) 12. The Animated Film Musical (Susan Smith) 13. Broadway on Records: The Evolution of the Original Cast Album (George Reddick) IV. Identities 14. Race, Ethnicity, Performance (Todd Decker) 15. Gender and Sexuality (Stacy Wolf) 16. The Politics of Region and Nation in American Musicals (Chase A. Bringardner) 17. Class and Culture (David Savran) V. Performance 18. Putting It Together: The Institutional Structure of the American Musical Theatre (David Sanjek) 19. Orchestration and Arrangement: Creating the Broadway Sound (Dominic Symonds) 20. ""Razzle Dazzle 'Em"": Musical Theatre Directors from Abbott to Zaks (Barbara Wallace Grossman) 21. What You See: Sets, Costumes, Lights, and Spectacle (Virginia Anderson) 22. Acting (John Clum) 23. Singing (Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp) 24. Dance and Choreography (Zachary Dorsey) VI. Audiences 25. Box Office (Steven Adler) 26. Audiences and Critics (Michelle Dvoskin) 27. Stars and Fans (Holley Replogle-Wong) 28. Knowing Your Audience: Community and High School Musical Theatre Production (Jennifer Chapman) 29. Performance, Authenticity, and the Reflexive Idealism of the American Musical (Raymond Knapp) Bibliography"

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<br> Bibliographic references, keyed to a lengthy end-of-volume bibliography, and chapter endnotes provide good documentation...Furnish[es] a good overall background for understanding the American musical...Recommended. --Choice<p><br> Proves that the study of musical theatre is not the eccentric hobby of a few nonconformist <br>tenured professors but an emerging field populated by a brilliant and diverse group of scholars...Comprehensive and accessible enough to serve as a primer to introduce the uninitiated to current debates within the community and to assign to students as part of a course in the history and theory of the genre. --New Theatre Quarterly<p><br>

<br> Bibliographic references, keyed to a lengthy end-of-volume bibliography, and chapter endnotes provide good documentation...Furnish[es] a good overall background for understanding the American musical...Recommended. --Choice<p><br>

Author Information

Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology at UCLA. His books include Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs (2003), The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (2005), The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (2006), and Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (2008, co-edited with Steven Baur and Jacqueline Warwick). Mitchell Morris is Associate Professor of Musicology at UCLA; among his research interests are Russian & Soviet Music; 20th century American music; opera; gender & sexuality; psychoanalysis; problems of musical ethics; and ecocriticism. In addition to his scholarly work, he is also a frequent collaborator with the Los Angeles Opera. Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater and the Director of the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002) and Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011).

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