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America's musical stage : two hundred years of musical theatre / Julian Mates.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1711 .M42 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mates, Julian, 1927-2010.
- Series:
- Contributions in drama and theatre studies 0163-3821 ; no. 18.
- Contributions in drama and theatre studies. 0163-3821 ; no. 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--United States--History and criticism.
- Musicals.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985.
- Summary:
- Mates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critical reactions to popular theatrical forms of musical entertainment. He introduces the reader to various types of theatrical companies, the changing repertory, and the many kinds of musical performers who have animated the stage. Mates focuses on the creative relationships between the different forms of opera, the minstrel show and circus, melodrama and dance, burlesque, revue, vaudeville, and musical comedy.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [225]-231.
- ISBN:
- 0313239487
- OCLC:
- 11783034
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