Contributor
Everett, William A., 1962-
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxvii, 310 p. : illus. ; 26 cm.
Note:American musical theatre before the twentieth century / Katherine K. Preston. - Birth pangs, growing pains and sibling rivalry: musical theatre in new York 1900-1920 / Orly Leah Krasner. - Romance, nostalgia and nevermore: American and British operetta in the 1920s / Willaim A. Everett. - Images of African Americans: African-America musical theatre, Show Boat and Porgy and Bess / John Graziano. - The melody (and the words) linger on: American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s / Geoffrey Block. - 'We said we wouldn't look back': British musical theatre, 1935-1960 / John Snelson. - The coming of the musical play: Rodgers and Hammerstein / Ann Sears. - The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s / Thomas L. Riis and Ann Sears with William A. Everett. - Musical sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Berstein / Bruce D. Mcclung and Paul R. Laird. - Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider / Jim Lovensheimer. - Choreographers, directors and the fully integrated musical / Paul R. Laird. - Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical / Graham Wood. - From Hair to Rent: is 'rock' a four-letter word on Broadway? / Scott Warfield. - The megamusical and beyond: the creation, internationalisation and impact of a genre / Paul Prece and William A. Everett.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-289) and index.
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