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Approaches to the American Musical de Robert Lawson-Peebles

Approaches to the American Musical

Autor Robert Lawson-Peebles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1995
Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form. Going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist, these examinations of American stage and film musicals argue that Porgy and Bess, Top Hat, Kiss Me Kate and All That Jazz were popular precisely because they engaged with such important American issues as ethnicity, commerce and international relations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780859894050
ISBN-10: 0859894053
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 229 x 140 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
Colecția University of Exeter Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Robert Lawson-Peebles is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Exeter.His research field is transatlantic cultural relations, from pre-Columbian times until the present. He has published three books on American environmental history: a monograph, Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America (1988), and two collections of original essays co-edited with Professor Mick Gidley (now of Leeds University), Downloads of American Landscapes (1989) and Modern American Landscapes (1995). He has also published essays on, amongst others, George Washington, Susannah Rowson, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry George, and William Carlos Williams.His interests include American performance arts, and he has published an introductory essay on the subject, an article on the impact of the Second World War on Hollywood versions of English novels, and an edited collection of original essays, Approaches to the American Musical (1996).

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Cultural Musicology and the American Musical by Robert Lawson-Peebles

2. From Butterfly to Saigon: Europe, America, and "Success" by Wilfrid Mellers

3. There's No Business Like Show Business: A Speculative Reading of the Broadway Musical by Carey Wall

4. From Gold Diggers to Bar Girls: A Selective History of the American Movie Musical by Ralph Willett

5. Holy Yumpin' Yiminy: Scandinavian Immigrant Stereotypes in the Early Twentieth Century American Musical by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey

6. Movies in Disguise: Negotiating Censorship and Patriarchy Through the Dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers by Sue Rickard

7. Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Case of Kiss me, Kate by Robert Lawson-Peebles

8. Who Loves You Porgy? The Debates Surrounding Gershwin's Musical by David Horn

9. West Side Story Revisited by Wilfrid Mellers

10. Sondheim and the Art That Has No Name by Stephen Banfield

Index