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American musical theatre : a chronicle /
The new edition of the leading survey of the American musical has been expanded and updated to cover the 1999-2000 season. Covering more than 250 years o musical theater history, the new edition of the book Newsweek called "the best reference of its kind" is an ummatched blend of narrative...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Prologue : origins to 1866
- 2. Act one : early successes, 1866-1892
- Scene one : opéra bouffe and native elements, 1866-1878
- Scene two : H.M.S. Pinafore and the great transformation, 1878-1892
- 3. Intermission : further British influences and new stirrings, 1892-1902
- 4. Act two : the emergence of American talent, 1902-1907
- 5. Intermission : Viennese operetta and the American retreat, 1907-1914
- 6. Act three : the birth of the modern musical, 1914-1921
- 7. Intermission : the Cinderella era, 1921-1924
- 8. Act four : the golden age of the American musical, 1924-1937
- Scene one : songwriters' shows as pure entertainment, 1924-1929
- Scene two : depression and "talkies"--Broadway's answer, 1929-1937
- 9. Intermission : Broadway's response to the swing era, 1937-1942
- 10. Act five : the American musical as a conscious art form, 1942-1965
- Scene one : Americana amid a new seriousness, 1942-1951
- Scene two : increasing problems--lowering standards, 1951-1965
- 11. Intermission : exhaustion, 1965-1969
- 12. Act six : full circle? ; or, return of the Brits, 1969-1995
- Scene one : startlingly new, delightfully old, 1969-1981
- Scent two : a musical trade imbalance, 1981-1995
- 13. Epilogue : technical spectacles, retrospectives, and revivals, 1995-?