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Popular musical theatre in London and Berlin, 1890 to 1939 /
"In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revues and operettas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Len Platt, Tobias Becker and David Linton
- Part I. The Mechanics of Transfer and Translation: 1. Berlin/London: London/Berlin: an outline of cultural transfer 1890-1914 / Len Platt ; 2. Local contexts and genre construction in early Continental musical theatre / Marion Linhardt ; 3. German operetta in the West End and on Broadway / Derek B. Scott ; 4. The Arcadians and Filmzauber: adaptation and the popular musical theatre text / Tobias Becker ; 5. How a sweet Viennese girl became a fair international lady: transfer, performance, modernity: acts in the making of a cosmopolitan culture / Stefan Frey ; 6. 'A happy man can live in the past': musical theatre transfer in the 1920s and 1930s / Len Platt and Tobias Becker
- Part II. Atlantic Traffic: 7. Hullo Ragtime! West End revue and the Americanisation of popular culture in pre-1914 London / Peter Bailey; 8. The Argentine tango: a transatlantic dance on the European Stage / Kerstin Lange ; 9. Dover Street to Dixie and the politics of cultural transfer and exchange / David Linton and Len Platt ; 10. The transculturality of stage, song and other media: intermediality in popular musical theatre / Carolin Stahrenberg and Nils Grosch ; Part III. Representation in Transition: Stage Others: 11. The Sandow Girl and her sisters:Edwwardian musical comdy, cultural transfer and the staging of the healthy female body / Viv Gardner ; 12. West End musical theatre and the representation of Germany / Len Platt ; 13. The Tropical Express in Nazi Germany / Susann Lewrenz ; 14. Operetta and propaganda in the third Reich: cultural politics and the Metropol-theatre / Matthias Kauffmann.