[Cambridge Companions to Music 01] • The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Everett, William A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half title Title page Imprints page Contents Illustrations Contributors Preface to the Third Edition 1 How to Create a Musical: The Case of Wicked

Notes

Part I Adaptations and Transformations: Before 1940

2 American Musical Theatre before the Twentieth Century

The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century: 1800–1840

Melodrama Itinerant Singers and Vocal Stars

The Nineteenth Century: c. 1840–1865

Stock Company Repertory: Melodrama and Plays with Songs Blackface Minstrelsy Pantomime, Ballet, Spectacle and Extravaganza Burlesque Opera: English, French and Italian

The Nineteenth Century: c. 1865–1900

Spectacles, Extravaganzas and Burlesques Melodrama Minstrelsy; Black Musical Theatre Opera and Operetta Vaudeville and Variety Show

Conclusion Notes

3 Non-English-Language Musical Theatre in the United States

Establishment of the Ethnic Musical Theatre Immigration Themes Represented in Song Performance Spaces Performers and Repertory Recordings Film Musicals Afterthought Notes

4 Birth Pangs, Growing Pains and Sibling Rivalry: Musical Theatre in New York, 1900–1920

Vaudevillian Roots Victor Herbert (1859–1924) Reginald de Koven (1859–1920) The Merry Widow Burlesque Operetta after The Merry Widow Follies and Scandals Irving Berlin (1888–1989) Jerome Kern (1885–1945) Conclusion Notes

5 American and British Operetta in the 1920s: Romance, Nostalgia and Adventure

Friml and Romberg: Transforming Operetta Hollywood Versions of Operettas The British Scene: From Chu Chin Chow to Bitter Sweet The Legacy of Operetta Notes

6 Images of African Americans: African American Musical Theatre, Show Boat and Porgy and Bess

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7 The Melody (and the Words) Linger On: American Musical Comedies of the 1920s and 1930s

Setting the Stage Music and Words Legacies: Stage Revivals, Film Adaptations and Reconstructed Recordings Notes

Part II Maturations and Formulations: 1940–1970

8 ‘We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back’: British Musical Theatre, 1935–1969

1935–1939 Wartime 1947 and the ‘American Invasion’ The 1950s The 1960s Conclusion Notes

9 The Coming of the Musical Play: Rodgers and Hammerstein

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10 The Successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s

The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s Notes

11 Musical Sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein

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Part III Evolutions and Integrations: After 1970

12 Stephen Sondheim and the Musical of the Outsider

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13 Choreographers, Directors and the Fully Integrated Musical

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14 From Hair to Rent and Beyond: Has ‘Rock’ Ever Been a Four-Letter Word on Broadway?

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15 The Megamusical: The Creation, Internationalisation and Impact of a Genre

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16 ‘In this England, in these times’: Redefining the British Musical since 1970

Experimentation and Consolidation: British Musicals in the 1970s Defining the Modern British Musical Refreshing Revivals New Works for a New Millennium Creating a National Infrastructure Notes

17 ‘Tonight I Will Bewitch the World’: The European Musical

What Makes a Musical European? Imports The Netherlands: Stage Entertainment Germany and Austria: Das Musical Michael Kunze France: Imports, Exports and French-American Hybrids Elsewhere in Europe Truly European? Notes

18 New Horizons: The Musical at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

The Operetta Musical The Integrated Musical The Pop/Rock Musical Black Musicals Latino/a Musicals Asian Musicals Folk/Country Musicals The Non-linear or ‘Concept’ Musical The ‘Dansical’ ‘Actor-Musicianship’ The ‘Revisal’ Producers The Business of Broadway Notes

Part IV Legacies and Transformations

19 Why Do They Start to Sing and Dance All of a Sudden? Examining the Film Musical

Prologue Introduction Technology Genre Visual Style Musical Style

Song Diegesis Transitions Disney Styles Song Migration and Interpolation Singing and Lyrics Dance Style

Concluding Example Summary Notes

20 Revisiting Classic Musicals: Revivals, Films, Television and Recordings

Revivals Films Television Audio and Video Recordings Notes

21 Big Dreams on the Small Screen: The Television Musical

What Is (and Is Not) a Television Musical? The Original Television Musical The Musical Episode of the Non-musical Television Series The Musical Series Notes

Select Bibliography Index Cambridge Companions to Music

Topics Composers Instruments

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