基本説明
This book presents keywords and critical terms that deepen analysis and interpretation of the musical. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a wide range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of one of America's most lively, enduring artistic traditions.
Full Description
The American musical, though one of the United States' most popular and emblematic musical genres, has long been neglected as a topic for academic study. Only recently have scholars taken up the serious study of musicals, and serious criticism and commentary available to non-professionals is still sparse. The Oxford Handbook of the Amreican Musical is designed to be used by students in all disciplines concerned with the genre, as well as non-academic listeners who want to enrich their experience as audience members. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to important concepts and terms that shape the history of the musical as a genre, and offers ways to reflect on the specific choices that shape the musicals and their performance. The Handbook offers ways of thinking about musicals that will be of interest to scholars and students as well as performers of all kinds.
Contents
Introduction (Stacy Wolf) ; I. Historiography ; 1. Narratives and Values: Stories of the Musical (Mitchell Morris) ; 2. Texts and Authors (Jim Lovensheimer) ; 3. Marian Waltzes while Harold Marches: Musical Styles and Types in the American Musical (Paul Laird) ; 4. Evolution of Dance in the Golden Age of the American "Book Musical" (Liza Gennaro) ; II. Transformations ; 5. Minstrelsy and Theatrical Miscegenation (Thomas L. Riis) ; 6. Toward the First "Golden Age": Tin Pan Alley Songs on Stage and Screen before World War II (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris) ; 7. Integration (Geoffrey Block) ; 8. After the "Golden Age" (Jessica Sternfeld & Elizabeth L. Wollman) ; III. Media ; 9. Theatre (Tamsen Wolff) ; 10. The Filmed Musical: Fissures and Fusions between Stage and Screen (Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris) ; 11. The Television Musical: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Robynn J. Stilwell) ; 12. The Animated Film Musical (Susan Smith) ; 13. Broadway on Records: The Evolution of the Original Cast Album (George
