The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity - Couverture souple

Knapp, Raymond

 
9780691141053: The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691141053 ISBN 13 : 9780691141053
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Raymond Knapp is professor of musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (Princeton), winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also published books on Brahms and Mahler.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691141053
ISBN 13 
9780691141053
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
490
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0691125244 ISBN 13 :  9780691125244
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2006
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