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Class in British musical theatre / Katie Beswick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beswick, Katie, author.
- Series:
- Topics in musical theatre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical theater--Economic aspects--Great Britain.
- Musical theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen Drama, 2026.
- Summary:
- This short book gives an overview of the relationship between class and musical theatre in Britain, and how the class system plays out through industry practices. Beginning with an analysis of the 2001 London production of My Fair Lady as an example of class representation, Class in British Musical Theatre argues how productions are marketed to particular groups, how audience segmentation practices feed into a classed discourse, and how all this shapes how musical theatre as a genre is received. It takes in contemporary musicals such as Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Matilda and looks back to Oh, What a Lovely War!. Published in the Topics in Musical Theatre series, this short book gives the reader new ways of seeing the aesthetically and politically capacious category of class in musical theatre from a fresh perspective.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Hook: My Fair Lady and the British Class System
- Concepts of Class
- Brief History of the Relationship Between Theatre, Music and Social Class
- Chapter Overview
- Chapter 1: Class Consciousness and the Musical
- Theme: Shifting Class Consciousness in 20th/21st Centuries
- Lit Review: Look Up and Laugh, Les Mis&&&&&rables, Billy Elliot
- Case Study: Oh What a Lovely War!
- Chapter 2: Real and Fictional Spaces
- Theme: Space and Place
- Lit Review: The Phantom of the Opera, Blood Brothers, Everybody's Talking About Jamie
- Case Study: Standing at the Sky's Edge
- Chapter 3: Class Struggle and Form
- Theme: Formal Experiments
- Lit Review: Misty, Poet in Da Corner, Grimeboy
- Case Study: Pied Piper: A Hip Hop Family Musical
- Conclusion
- Mini Case Study: Matilda the Musical
- Other Format:
- Print version: Beswick, Katie. Class in British musical theatre /
- ISBN:
- 1350496308
- 9781350496309
- OCLC:
- 1520506711
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