Tell it to the world : the Broadway musical abroad / David Savran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savran, David, 1950- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicals--Germany--History and criticism.

Musicals.

Musicals--Korea (South)--History and criticism.

Musicals--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

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Krieger, Henry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Tell It to the World' offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local practices and traditions. It traces especially how the musical has been indigenized in South Korea and Germany, the commercial centres for Broadway musicals in East Asia and continental Europe. Both countries were occupied after World War II by the United States, which disseminated U.S. American popular music, jazz, movies, and musical theatre in the belief that these nations needed to rebuild their cultures in accordance with U.S. guidelines. By the 1990s, Broadway imports had become phenomenally popular in Seoul and Hamburg while home-grown musicals proliferated that adapted and transformed the prototypes that had been disseminated by the U.S.

Contents:

Part One. Introduction. Why Musical Theatre?

Part Two. South Korea. The New Broadway-Style Musical ; The Sound of Korea

Part Three. Germany. Enter the Musical ; Musical Comedy Recalibrated ; Celebrating the Great Tralala.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 20, 2023).

ISBN:

9780190249557

0190249552

9780190249564

0190249560

9780190249540

0190249544

OCLC:

1393166880