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We'll have Manhattan : the early work of Rodgers and Hart
2015
Overview
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart collaborated on more than forty shows before Hart’s death, contributing dozens of classic song hits to the Great American Songbook. This book focuses on the early period of their collaboration, before the huge successes of the 1930s. From 1919, when they met, until their brief flirtation with Hollywood in the early thirties, their output was prodigious, progressive, and experimental. During this period they developed their style and an approach to writing musicals that would be fundamental to the development of the form. Despite this, despite their numerous celebrated songs and the many Broadway and West End successes they enjoyed, the 1920s shows remain little known and important archives of their work little explored. Not just a historical study of their first collaborative years, this book also offers an accessible but authoritative study of their material, documenting the early shows and providing a critical and analytical commentary on their songwriting practice and its influence on the subsequent development of the American musical. In particular, the book explores three main themes: the way they developed a language of song whose techniques anticipate the development of the integrated musical; the way they increasingly understood their work as part of an industry, accommodating the needs of production into their creative practice; and the way their individual characters emerge throughout their careers as formative influences on the shows they would create. With a supporting cast including Herb Fields, Lew Fields, George Gershwin, Busby Berkeley, and Florenz Ziegfeld, this book places Rodgers and Hart at the center of a burgeoning art form.
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press USA - OSO
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ISBN
0199929483, 9780199929481
