Bibliograph

Experiencing Broadway music, a listener's companion, Kat Sherrell

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Label

Experiencing Broadway music, a listener's companion, Kat Sherrell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Experiencing Broadway music

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

944014135

Responsibility statement

Kat Sherrell

Series statement

Listener's companion

Sub title

a listener's companion

Summary

"Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion will cover approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that became uniquely American. It will conclude with an examination of current musical trends and practices on Broadway. As a musician who works on Broadway and in developmental musical theater, Kathryn Sherrell draws on both her knowledge as an historian of Broadway musical form and as a professional Broadway musician to explain and recreate the musical theatrical experience and offer an insider's perspective on the development and execution of the past and present Broadway scores. Despite its enormous breadth and given the historical significance of the musical in modern popular culture, Experiencing Broadway Music provides listeners--whether they know musical theater well or not at all--with the tools and background necessary to grasp or gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the last century."--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

A great big Broadway show : Wicked -- The roots of American musical theater : The great Ziegfeld -- The beginnings of integration : Very good Eddie, Shuffle along and Show boat -- The great depression and the American songbook : Anything goes and Porgy and Bess -- A golden age of Broadway : Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Rock on Broadway : Hair -- Concept musicals : Sondheim! The birthday concert and A chorus line -- Megamusicals : Andrew Lloyd Webber: Gold album and Les misâerables -- Musicals for the MTV generation : Rent and Spring awakening -- Diversity and integration : Hamilton

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