ISBN:
9780190204938
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 754 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of the British musical
DDC:
782.1/40941
Keywords:
Musicals History and criticism
;
Musicals ; Great Britain ; History and criticism
;
Großbritannien
;
Musical
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
As the first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins to its current state, this volume is a detailed guide to understanding a vibrant form of entertainment 'made in Britain'. It provides both a historical account of musical theatre from 1728 to the present day and a range of in-depth critical analyses of key works and productions that illustrate the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of the genre. The twenty-eight essays offer new perspectives on the British musical, conceiving it as a cultural form complementary to the American musical rather than its poor relation, and questioning the cultural bias that views shows initiated in the West End of London as second-rate imitations of classic Broadway models.
Description / Table of Contents:
Ballad opera : commercial song in enlightenment garb / Berta Joncus -- Between opera and musical : theatre music in early nineteenth-century London / Christine Furhmann -- Comic opera : English society in Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Wiliams -- English musical comedy, 1890-1924 / Stephen Banfield -- English West End revue : the First World War and after / David Linton -- Musical comedy in the 1920s and 1930s : Mister Cinders and Me and my girl as class-conscious carnival / George Burrows -- West End royalty : Ivor Novello and English operetta, 1917-1951 / Stewart Nicholls -- The American invasion : the impact of Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun / Dominic Symonds -- 'Ordinary people' and British musicals of the post-war decade / John Snelson -- After Anger : the British musical of the late 1950s / Elizabeth A. Wells -- 'I'm common and I like 'em' : represenations of class in the period musical after Oliver! / Ben Francis -- Towards a British concept musical : the shows of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse / David Cottis -- The pop-music industry and the British musical / Ian Sapiro -- 'Everybody's free to fail' : subsidized British revivals of the American canon / Sarah Browne -- Les misâerables : from epic novel to epic musical / Kathryn M. Grossman and Bradley Stephens -- 'Humming the sets' : scenography and the spectacular musical from Cats to The Lord of the Rings / Christine White -- Billy Elliot and its lineage : the politics of class and sexual identity in British musicals since 1953 / Robert Gordon -- Noèel Coward : sui generis / Dominic McHugh -- Joan Littlewood : collaboration and vision / Ben Macpherson -- Lionel Bart : British vernacular musical theatre / Millie Taylor -- Time Rice : the pop star scenario / Olaf Jubin -- Cameron Mackintosh : control, collaboration, and the creative producer / Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen -- Andrew Lloyd Webber : haunted by the Phantom / David Chandler -- The beggar's legacy : playing with music and drama, 1920-2003 / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- Mamma mia! and the aesthetics of the twenty-first century jukebox musical / George Rodosthenous -- Attracting the family market : shows with cross-generational appeal / Rebecca Warner -- Genre counterpoints : challenges to the mainstream musical / David Roesner -- Some yesterdays always remain : Black British and Anglo-Asian musical theatre / Ben Macpherson
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 697-705
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.001.0001
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