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The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity / Raymond Knapp.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (480 p.) : 31 halftones. 26 line illus. 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691141053
  • 9781400832682
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.1/40973 22
LOC classification:
  • ML2054 .K6 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- EXPLANATORY NOTE ABOUT AUDIO EXAMPLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ENTR'ACTE -- Part One. PERSONAL GENRES -- 1. The Viennese Connection -- 2. The Movie Musical -- Part Two. PERSONAL THEMES -- 3. Fairy Tales and Fantasy -- 4. Idealism and Inspiration -- 5. Gender and Sexuality -- 6. Relationships -- Epilogue -- 7. Operatic Ambitions and Beyond -- Appendix Additional Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin' in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz. Complementing the author's earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- EXPLANATORY NOTE ABOUT AUDIO EXAMPLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ENTR'ACTE -- Part One. PERSONAL GENRES -- 1. The Viennese Connection -- 2. The Movie Musical -- Part Two. PERSONAL THEMES -- 3. Fairy Tales and Fantasy -- 4. Idealism and Inspiration -- 5. Gender and Sexuality -- 6. Relationships -- Epilogue -- 7. Operatic Ambitions and Beyond -- Appendix Additional Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin' in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz. Complementing the author's earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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