The Cambridge companion to the musical / edited by William A. Everett, Paul R. Laird.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
xvii, 310 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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    Related name
    Series
    Cambridge companions to music [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-289) and index.
    Contents
    • American musical theatre before the twentieth century / Katherine K. Preston
    • Birth pangs, growing pains and sibling rivalry : musical theatre in New York, 1900-1920 / Orly Leah Krasner
    • Romance, nostalgia and nevermore : American and British operetta in the 1920s / William A. Everett
    • Images of African Americans : African-American musical theatre, Show Boat and Porgy and Bess / John Graziano
    • The melody (and the words) linger on : American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s / Geoffrey Block.
    • 'We said we wouldn't look back' : British musical theatre, 1935-1960 / John Snelson
    • The coming of the musical play : Rodgers and Hammerstein / Ann Sears
    • The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s / Thomas L. Riis and Ann Sears with William A. Everett
    • Musical sophistication on Broadway : Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein / bruce d. mcclung and Paul R. Laird
    • Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider / Jim Lovensheimer
    • Choreographers, directors and the fully integrated musical / Paul R. Laird.
    • Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical / Graham Wood
    • From Hair to Rent : is 'rock' a four-letter word on Broadway? / Scott Warfield
    • The megamusical and beyond : the creation, internationalisation and impact of a genre / Paul Prece and William A. Everett.
    ISBN
    • 0521791898 (hbk.)
    • 0521796393 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    2002023788
    OCLC
    49326980
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