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Approaches to the American musical / edited by Robert Lawson-Peebles.

Title
  1. Approaches to the American musical / edited by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Published by
  1. Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Lawson-Peebles, Robert
Description
  1. vii, 167 p. : music; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. This new analysis of American film and stage musicals puts forward the argument that productions such as Kiss Me Kate were popular because they dealt with important issues such as ethnicity, rather than because of their value as escapism.
Subject
  1. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  2. Musicals > United States > History and criticism
  3. Musicals
  4. Theorievorming
  5. Comédies musicales > États-Unis > Histoire et critique
  6. Films musicaux > États-Unis > Histoire et critique
  7. Musique de scène > États-Unis > Histoire et critique
  8. History
  9. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction: Cultural Musicology and the American Musical / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- 2. From Butterfly to Saigon: Europe, America, and "Success" / Wilfrid Mellers -- 3. There's No Business Like Show Business: A Speculative Reading of the Broadway Musical / Carey Wall -- 4. From Gold Diggers to Bar Girls: A Selective History of the American Movie Musical / Ralph Willett -- 5. Holy Yumpin' Yiminy: Scandinavian Immigrant Stereotypes in the Early Twentieth Century American Musical / Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey -- 6. Movies in Disguise: Negotiating Censorship and Patriarchy Through the Dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers / Sue Rickard -- 7. Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Case of Kiss me, Kate / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- 8. Who Loves You Porgy? The Debates Surrounding Gershwin's Musical / David Horn -- 9. West Side Story Revisited / Wilfrid Mellers -- 10. Sondheim and the Art That Has No Name / Stephen Banfield.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain