The American Musical As An Art Form
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The American Musical
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Author : Ben West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
The American Musical written by Ben West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Music categories.
"The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musical's artistic evolution over the course of seven distinct, newly defined eras, with a unique perspective gleaned from research at more than twenty different archives across the United States. Individual in both its approach and coverage, The American Musical traces the form's creative journey from its 19th century beginnings, through its 20th century maturation, and to the turn of the 21st century, shedding new light on a myriad of authors, directors, and craftspeople who worked on Broadway and beyond. This book actively addresses the form's often overlooked female and African-American artists, provides an in-depth accounting of such outside influences as minstrelsy, vaudeville, nightclubs, and burlesque, and explores the dynamic relationship between the form and the consciousness of its country. The American Musical is a fascinating and insightful read for students, artists, and afficionados of the American musical, and anyone with an interest in this singular form of entertainment"--
The American Musical As An Art Form
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Author : Saul N. Scher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The American Musical As An Art Form written by Saul N. Scher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
The Art Of The American Musical
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Author : Jackson R. Bryer
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Art Of The American Musical written by Jackson R. Bryer and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Musical theater has captivated American audiences from its early roots in burlesque stage productions and minstrel shows to the million-dollar industry it has become on Broadway today. What is it about this truly indigenous American art form that has made it so enduringly popular? How has it survived, even thrived, alongside the technology of film and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? Will it continue to evolve and leave its mark on the twenty-first century? Bringing together exclusive and previously unpublished interviews with nineteen leading composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, choreographers, and producers from the mid-1900s to the present, this book details the careers of the individuals who shaped this popular performance art during its most prolific period. The interviewees discuss their roles in productions ranging from On the Town (1944) and Finian's Rainbow (1947) to The Producers (2001) and Bounce (2003). Readers are taken onto the stage, into the rehearsals, and behind the scenes. The nuts and bolts, the alchemy, and the occasional agonies of the collaborative process are all explored. In their discussions, the artists detail their engagements with other creative forces, including such major talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Jule Styne, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, Zero Mostel, and Gwen Verdon. They speak candidly about their own work and that of their peers, their successes and failures, the creative process, and how a show progresses from its conception through rehearsals and tryouts to opening night. Taken together, these interviews give fresh insight into what Oscar Hammerstein called "a nightly miracle"--the creation of the American musical.
Histories Of The Musical
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-04
Histories Of The Musical written by Raymond Knapp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with Music categories.
The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In spite of their unapologetic commercialism, though, musicals have achieved supreme artistry and have influenced culture as much as if not more than any other art form in America, including avant-garde and high art on the one hand, and the full range of popular and commercial art on the other. Reflecting, refracting, and shaping U.S. culture since the early twentieth century, musicals converse with shifting dynamics of gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, and the very question of what it means to be American and to be human. The chapters gathered in this book, Volume I of the reissued Oxford Handbook, explore the American musical from both the outside and the inside. This first volume concentrates in particular on large-scale, more philosophical issues of relevance to the genre, considering issues of historical situations and formal procedure as they bear on the narratives we make concerning productions and performers, artists and audiences, commerce and context. The first four essays discuss ways of defining histories and texts, and apprehending the formal choices of singers and dancers; the second group of four take up the subtle challenges of the genre's signal transformations out of minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley to "integration" and beyond.
The American Musical Theatre 1930 1949
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Author : Betty N. McEnery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The American Musical Theatre 1930 1949 written by Betty N. McEnery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Musicals categories.
Our Musicals Ourselves
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Author : John Bush Jones
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-17
Our Musicals Ourselves written by John Bush Jones and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with wonderful, diversionary shows like The Music Man or My Fair Lady, John Bush Jones instead selects musicals for their social relevance and the extent to which they engage, directly or metaphorically, contemporary politics and culture. Organized chronologically, with some liberties taken to keep together similarly themed musicals, Jones examines dozens of Broadway shows from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present that demonstrate numerous links between what played on Broadway and what played on newspapersÕ front pages across our nation. He reviews the productions, lyrics, staging, and casts from the lesser-known early musicals (the ÒgunboatÓ musicals of the Teddy Roosevelt era and the ÒCinderella showsÓ and Òleisure time musicalsÓ of the 1920s) and continues his analysis with better-known shows including Showboat, Porgy and Bess, Oklahoma, South Pacific, West Side Story, Cabaret, Hair, Company, A Chorus Line, and many others. While most examinations of the American musical focus on specific shows or emphasize the development of the musical as an art form, JonesÕs book uses musicals as a way of illuminating broader social and cultural themes of the times. With six appendixes detailing the long-running diversionary musicals and a foreword by Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, JonesÕs comprehensive social history will appeal to both students and fans of Broadway.
The American Musical And The Formation Of National Identity
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
The American Musical And The Formation Of National Identity written by Raymond Knapp and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Music categories.
The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity. Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American burlesque and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, and other song types. It then proceeds thematically, focusing primarily on fifteen mainstream shows from the twentieth century, with discussions of such notable productions as Show Boat (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Pacific Overtures (1976), and Assassins (1991). The shows are grouped according to their treatment of themes that include defining America, mythologies, counter-mythologies, race and ethnicity, dealing with World War II, and exoticism. Each chapter concludes with a brief consideration of available scholarship on related subjects; an extensive appendix provides information on each show discussed, including plot summaries and song lists, and a listing of important films, videos, audio recordings, published scores, and libretti associated with each musical.
A History Of The American Musical Theatre
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Author : Nathan Hurwitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
A History Of The American Musical Theatre written by Nathan Hurwitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with History categories.
From the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the ‘20s, the ‘true musicals’ of the ‘40s, the politicisation of the ‘60s and the ‘mega-musicals’ of the ‘80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan Hurwitz uses these factors to explain the output of each decade in turn, showing how the most popular productions spoke directly to the audiences of the time. He explores the function of musical theatre as commerce, tying each big success to the social and economic realities in which it flourished. This study spans from the earliest spectacles and minstrel shows to contemporary musicals such as Avenue Q and Spiderman. It traces the trends of this most commercial of art forms from the perspective of its audiences, explaining how staying in touch with writers and producers strove to stay in touch with these changing moods. Each chapter deals with a specific decade, introducing the main players, the key productions and the major developments in musical theatre during that period.
Influences Of Forms Of Theatre On Development Of American Musical Theatre
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Author : Shani Bufford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Influences Of Forms Of Theatre On Development Of American Musical Theatre written by Shani Bufford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Minstrel music categories.
Musical theatre has come into its own in America; so much so that it has its own distinct identity. The point where American musical theatre came into its own is widely agreed to be in 1927 with the debut of the Kerns/Hammerstein musical Showboat. This musical was a first in several ways, primarily in the tight cohesive way music and dialogue combined to further the story, a rather new innovation for the period. Even with this austere reputation of being innovative, Showboat was not wholly original. This musical, as well as American musical theatre on the whole, was a product of the mingling of styles, a result of influences. Opera, minstrelsy, and vaudeville have collectively left a mark on American musical theatre, making it possible to trace its origins back to their respective histories. Using Showboat as an example of the culmination of the effects of these three on musical theatre in America, it will be shown how each one contributed to its growth. The effect of opera on the overall composition of what would become musical theatre as well as simply introducing the art form to America was significant as a starting point. Minstrelsy would contribute even more to format of theatre, as well as the mix of drama and acting with music as a primary part of the action. Vaudeville made similar contributions, even more clearly refining the ways music could be integral to the movement of a story and actually be a primary component in the staging of a tale. These influences are clearly seen in showboat and provided this revolutionary piece with a groundwork, a foundation to rise from. Showboat, although not directly derivative of opera, minstrelsy, and vaudeville, made use of various devices and formats left to it by its three predecessors to move musical theatre into a new era. All three contributors to American musical theatre, however, have one major point in common. Each introduced the concept of reflecting the issues of American society and history from the stage into what musical theatre would become. Opera, minstrelsy, and vaudeville all made use of preconceptions, misconceptions, and social commentary in America to present their stories. This use of stage to reflect and influence society is one of the strongest links between these three art forms and what became known as American musical theatre.
The American Musical Theater
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Author : Lehman Engel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The American Musical Theater written by Lehman Engel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Music categories.
A noted composer and conductor reviews the origins, evolution, and contemporary elements of the popular American art form.