The Oxford handbook of the British musical / edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xviii, 754 pàgines ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9780199988747

Subject(s):

Musical -- Gran Bretanya -- Història i crítica

Contents:

Conté: Introduction -- Part I Britannia Rules: The Early British Musical and Society: Ballad Opera: Commercial Song in Enlightenment Garb / Berta Joncus -- Between Opera and Musical: Theatre Music in Early Nineteenth-Century London / Christina Fuhrmann -- Comic Opera: English Society in Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Williams -- English Musical Comedy, 1890-1924 / Stephen Banfield -- English West End Revue: The First World War and After / David Linton -- Part II British or American: Artistic Differences: Musical Comedy in the 1920s and 1930s: Mister Cinders and Me and My Girl as Class-Conscious Carnival / George Burrows -- West End Royalty: Ivor Novello and English Operetta, 1917-1951 / Stewart Nicholls -- The American Invasion: The Impact of Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun / Dominic Symonds --'Ordinary People' and British Musicals of the Post-War Decade / John Snelson -- Part III New Approaches to Form and Subject Matter: After Anger: The British Musical of the Late 1950s / Elizabeth A. Wells -- 'I'm Common and I Like 'Em': Representations of Class in the Period Musical after Oliver! / Ben Francis --Towards a British Concept Musical: The Shows of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse / David Cottis -- The Pop-Music Industry and the British MusicalIan Sapiro -- Part IV 'The British are Coming!': 'Everybody's Free to Fail': Subsidized British Revivals of the American Canon / Sarah Browne -- Les Misérables: From Epic Novel to Epic Musical / Kathryn M. Grossman and Bradley Stephens -- 'Humming the Sets': Scenography and the Spectacular Musical from Cats to The Lord of the Rings / Christine White -- Billy Elliot and Its Lineage: The Politics of Class and Sexual Identity in British Musicals since 1953 / Robert Gordon -- Part V Trailblazers: Noël Coward: Sui Generis / Dominic McHugh -- Joan Littlewood: Collaboration and Vision / Ben Macpherson -- Lionel Bart: British Vernacular Musical Theatre / Millie Taylor -- Tim Rice: The Pop Star Scenario / Olaf Jubin -- Cameron Mackintosh: Control, Collaboration, and the Creative Producer / Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen -- Andrew Lloyd Webber: Haunted by the Phantom / David Chandler -- Part VI 'The Art of the Possible': Alternative Approaches to Musical Theatre Aesthetics: The Beggar's Legacy: Playing with Music and Drama, 1920-2003 / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- Mamma Mia! and the Aesthetics of the Twenty-First-Century Jukebox Musical / George Rodosthenous -- Attracting the Family Market: Shows with Cross-Generational Appeal / Rebecca Warner -- Genre Counterpoints: Challenges to the Mainstream Musical / David Roesner -- Some Yesterdays Always Remain: Black British and Anglo-Asian Musical Theatre / Ben Macpherson

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