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Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Autor Millie Taylor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 noi 2016
What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining? What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate emotional attachment, to move and to give pleasure? 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. Musical theatre contains disruptions and dissonances in its multiple texts, it allows gaps for audiences to read playfully. This combines with the voluptuous sensations of embodied emotion, contagiously and viscerally shared between audience and stage, and augmented through the presence of voice and music. A number of features are discovered in the construction of musical theatre performance texts that allow them to engage the intense emotional attachment of their audiences and so achieve enormous popularity. In doing this, the book challenges the conception of musical theatre as 'only entertainment'. Entertainment instead becomes a desirable, ephemeral and playful concept.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138279537
ISBN-10: 1138279536
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Dr Millie Taylor, Reader in Performing Arts, University of Winchester, UK

Cuprins

Introduction; Chapter 1 Musical Characterisation in HMS Pinafore and The Rocky Horror Show; Chapter 2 Encoding the Voice; Chapter 3 Integration and Distance in Musical Theatre; Chapter 4 Layers of Representation and the Creation of Irony; Chapter 5 Alternatives to Linearity: Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Assassins; Chapter 6 Illusions of Realism in West Side Story and Actor-Musician Performances; Chapter 7 Experiencing Live Musical Theatre Performance: La Cage Aux Folles and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Chapter 8 I’ve Heard that Song Before; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

Descriere

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'.