The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (eBook)

Raymond Knapp (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18620-7 (ISBN)

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The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity. 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 discussions 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). The shows are grouped according to their treatment of themes that include defining America, mythologies, counter-mythologies, race and ethnicity, dealing with World War II, and exoticism. Each chapter concludes with a brief consideration of available scholarship on related subjects; an extensive appendix provides information on each show discussed, including plot summaries and song lists, and a listing of important films, videos, audio recordings, published scores, and libretti associated with each musical.

Autor

Raymond Knapp is Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Symphonic Metamorposes: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs and Brahms and the Challenge of the Symphony.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: american classic • American Musicological Society • American Pop • American popular music • An American in Paris (musical) • Anschluss • assonance • Babes on Broadway • Bertolt Brecht • blackface • Bob Cole (composer) • broadway theatre • burlesque • Cabaret (musical) • Candide (operetta) • Cohan • Cole Porter • Concept musical • Coon song • Counterculture • Cultural Imperialism • Diego Rivera • D'Oyly Carte Opera Company • Exoticism • extravaganza • Fiddler on the Roof • for example • Frank Sinatra • Fred Astaire • Genre • George Gershwin • George M. Cohan • Gilbert and Sullivan • Give My Regards to Broadway • Grand opera • Guys and Dolls • Harold Prince • H.M.S. Pinafore • Igor Stravinsky • In Dahomey • In Town (musical) • ira gershwin • Irving Berlin • jerome robbins • Jerry Bock • Joseph E. Howard • Kurt Weill • La Sonnambula • Leitmotif • Leonard Bernstein • Libretto • Little Johnny Jones • Marc Blitzstein • Mark Twain • Meet Me in St. Louis (musical) • Melodrama • minstrel • Minstrel Show • Musical film • Musical Theatre • music and lyrics • Music Hall • Music Is • Music publisher (popular music) • Off-Broadway • of thee i sing • Oklahoma! • operetta • Orientalism • Oscar Hammerstein II • Pal Joey (musical) • Pantomime • Parody • Phrase (music) • popular music • Porgy and Bess • Richard Rodgers • Rip Van Winkle (operetta) • Rodgers and Hammerstein • Romanticism • Rumble (instrumental) • Savoy Opera • Seventy-Six Trombones • Show Boat • Singing • Songwriter • Stephen Sondheim • tevye • The Black Crook • the cradle will rock • The Goldwyn Follies • the king and i • Theme music • The Music Man • Tin Pan Alley • Vaudeville • World War II • W. S. Gilbert • Ya Got Trouble • yankee doodle dandy
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18620-0 / 0691186200
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18620-7 / 9780691186207