Experiencing Broadway music : a listener's companion / Kat Sherrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherrell, Kat, author.

Series:

Listener's companion

The listener's companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicals--United States--Analysis, appreciation.

Musicals.

Musicals--Analysis, appreciation.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion explores 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 gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the last century. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Great Big Broadway Show: Wicked 1

2 The Roots of American Musical Theater: The Great Ziegfeld 21

3 The Beginnings of Integration: Very Good Eddie, Shuffle Along, and Show Boat 41

4 The Great Depression and the Great American Songbook: Anything Goes and Porgtj and Bess 65

5 A Golden Age of Broadway: Rodgers and Hammerstein 83

6 Rock on Broadway: Hair 107

7 Concept Musicals: Sondheim! The Birthday Concert and A Chorus Tine 127

8 Megamusicals: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Gold Album and Lea Misérables 147

9 Musicals for the MTV Generation: Rent and Spring Awakening 167

10 Diversity and Integration: Hamilton 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sherrell, Kat, author. Experiencing Broadway music.

ISBN:

9780810889002

0810889005

OCLC:

944014135