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The Great White Way
Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation?
The Great White Wayis the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years fromShow Boat(1927) toThe Scottsboro Boys(2011). Musicals mirror their time periods and reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas in plain view of their audiences. While the musical is informed by the cultural contributions of African Americans and Jewish immigrants, Hoffman argues that ultimately the history of the American musical is the history of white identity in the United States.
Presented chronologically,The Great White Wayshows how perceptions of race altered over time and how musicals dealt with those changes. Hoffman focuses first on shows leading up to and comprising the Golden Age of Broadway (1927-1960s), then turns his attention to the revivals and nostalgic vehicles that defined the final quarter of the twentieth century. He offers entirely new and surprising takes on shows from the American musical canon-Show Boat(1927),Oklahoma!(1943),Annie Get Your
Gun(1946),The Music Man(1957),West Side Story(1957),A Chorus Line(1975), and42nd Street(1980), among others.New archival research on the creators who produced and wrote these shows, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, and Edward Kleban, will have theater fans and scholars rethinking forever how they view this popular American entertainment.
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Next to normal
\"A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, Next to normal shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact\"--From publisher description.
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The American musical and the performance of personal identity
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.
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Your rep book : how to find, choose, and prepare successful audition songs
\"A practical and (a little bit) sassy how-to guide for selecting, preparing, and performing audition songs for the student or professional musical theatre performer\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment
Beginning from the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity in London's West End and on Broadway this book explores the ways in which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. It investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and spectacular performances. Early discussions centre on the construction of the composed text, but then attention is given to performance and audience response. In doing this, the book challenges the conception of musical theatre as 'only entertainment'.
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Dear Evan Hansen
\"An original musical that explores the poignant desire for human connection in the tumultuous life of one young man. Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it -- teeming with the irrepressible emotions all too familiar with anyone who's ever been a teenager. After a tragedy strikes, Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, but is it ultimately for the better?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Visualizing Music
To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it
aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding
visually?
Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating
about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields
of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson
describes how graphical images can help us understand music. By
explaining the history of music visualizations through the lens of
human perception and cognition, Isaacson offers a guide to
understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective
and provides readers with extensive principles and strategies to
create excellent images of their own. Illustrated with over 300
diagrams from both historical and modern sources, including
examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and
jazz, folk, and popular music, Visualizing Music explores
the decisions made around image creation.
Together with an extensive online supplement and dozens of
redrawings that show the impact of effective techniques,
Visualizing Music is a captivating guide to thinking
differently about design that will help music scholars better
understand the power of musical images, thereby shifting the
ephemeral to material.
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