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Cambridge Companion to the Musical

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ISBN-10: 0521796393

ISBN-13: 9780521796392

Edition: 2002

Authors: William A. Everett, Paul R. Laird, Jonathan Cross

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This volume provides an accessible introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. Written by a team of specialists in the field of musical theatre, it offers a guide to the history and development of the musical in England and America.
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Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Adaptations and transformations: before 1940
American musical theatre before the twentieth century
Birth pangs, growing pains and sibling rivalry: musical theatre in New York, 1900-1920
Romance, nostalgia and nevermore: American and British operetta in the 1920s
Images of African Americans: African-American musical theatre
The melody (and the words) linger on: American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s
Maturations and formulations: 1940 to 1970
'We said we wouldn't look back': British musical theatre, 1935-1960
The coming of the musical play: Rodgers and Hammerstein
The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s
Musical sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein
Evolutions and integrations: after 1970
Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider
Choreographers, directors and the fully integrated musical
Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical
From Hair to Rent: is 'rock' a four-letter word on Broadway?
The megamusical and beyond: the creation, internationalisation and impact of a genre
Notes
Select bibliography
Index