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The American musical and the formation of national identity /
Along with jazz & the American motion picture, the American musical is a distinctive art form that emerged in the first half of the 20th century. Raymond Knapp explores its origins & the themes that have dominated up to the modern day.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introductions. Contexts and strategies ; Nineteenth-century European roots : models and topics ; Early American developments : minstrelsy, extravaganza, pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville ; American song through Tin Pan Alley
- Defining America. Whose (Who's) America? ; American mythologies ; Counter-mythologies
- Managing America's others. Race and ethnicity ; Dealing with the Second World War ; Exoticism ; Afterword : other directions, other identities
- Appendix A : Art and commerce : the business of making musicals.