The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical
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The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-11-04
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical written by Raymond Knapp and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-04 with Drama categories.
The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today.Each essay traces the genealogy of the term or issue it addresses, including related issues and controversies, positions and problematizes those issues within larger bodies of scholarship, and provides specific examples drawn from shows and films. Essays both re-examine traditional topics and introduce underexplored areas. Reflecting the concerns of scholars and students alike, the authors emphasize critical and accessible perspectives, and supplement theory with concrete examples that may be accessed through links to the handbook's website.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. The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical will engage all readers interested in the form, from students to scholars to fans and aficionados, as it analyses the complex relationships among the creators, performers, and audiences who sustain the genre.
The Oxford Handbook Of The British Musical
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Author : Robert Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Oxford Handbook Of The British Musical written by Robert Gordon 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 2016 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins, The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical offers both a historical account of musical theatre from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of key works and productions that illustrate its aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings.
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The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03
The Oxford Handbook Of The American 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 2013-03 with Drama categories.
This text 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 range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of American musicals.
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 Oxford Handbook Of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations
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Author : Dominic McHugh
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-14
The Oxford Handbook Of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations written by Dominic McHugh 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 2019-06-14 with Music categories.
Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical written by Raymond Knapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Musicals categories.
Essays on issues and topics in the interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies, introducing readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen.--From publisher description.
The Oxford Handbook Of Children S Musical Cultures
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Author : Patricia Shehan Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-12-17
The Oxford Handbook Of Children S Musical Cultures written by Patricia Shehan Campbell 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 2012-12-17 with Music categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical lives of children in a variety of cultures, and their role as both preservers and innovators of music. Drawing on a wide array of fields from ethnomusicology and folklore to education and developmental psychology, the chapters presented in this handbook provide windows into the musical enculturation, education, and training of children, and the ways in which they learn, express, invent, and preserve music. Offering an understanding of the nature, structures, and styles of music preferred and used by children from toddlerhood through childhood and into adolescence, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is an important step forward in the study of children and music.
The Oxford Handbook Of Sondheim Studies
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Author : Robert Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
The Oxford Handbook Of Sondheim Studies written by Robert Gordon and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Music categories.
This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim's oeuvre. Chapters come from a remarkably wide range of disciplines as they offer new insights into Sondheim's work not only for the stage, but also for film and television, describing in full how Sondheim has re-shaped American musical theater.
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical
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Author : Raymond Knapp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Oxford Handbook Of The American Musical written by Raymond Knapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Electronic books categories.
This text 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 range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of American musicals.