An edition of Experiencing Broadway music (2016)

Experiencing Broadway music

a listener's companion

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An edition of Experiencing Broadway music (2016)

Experiencing Broadway music

a listener's companion

Provides listeners--whether they know musical theater well or not at all--with the tools and background necessary to grasp or gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the last century.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
235

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Table of Contents

A great big Broadway show : Wicked
The roots of American musical theater : The great Ziegfeld
The beginnings of integration : Very good Eddie, Shuffle along and Show boat
The great depression and the American songbook : Anything goes and Porgy and Bess
A golden age of Broadway : Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rock on Broadway : Hair
Concept musicals : Sondheim! The birthday concert and A chorus line
Megamusicals : Andrew Llloyd Webber: Gold album and Les misérables
Musicals for the MTV generation : Rent and Spring awakening
Diversity and integration : Hamilton.

Edition Notes

"Timeline": pages xiii-xvii; "Glossary": pages 209-216.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219), discography (page 221-223), videography (page 223), and index.

Series
The listener's companion, Listener's companion
Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
782.1/4097471
Library of Congress
MT95 .S55 2016, MT95.S55 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 235 pages
Number of pages
235

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27222948M
ISBN 10
0810889005
ISBN 13
9780810889002
LCCN
2016009832
OCLC/WorldCat
944014135

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20042916W

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