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The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity

Raymond Knapp

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Musik

Beschreibung

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project.


This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals.


Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin' in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz.


Complementing the author's earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike.

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Broadway theatre, Musical theatre, Leonard Bernstein, Candide (operetta), The Various, William Shakespeare, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Genre, Episode, Shirley Temple, Operetta, Sensibility, Parody, Fairy tale, Richard Wagner, Lady in the Dark, Evocation, Homosexuality, Evita (musical), Julie Andrews, The Merry Widow, Cole Porter, Suggestion, A Little Night Music, Assonance, Soliloquy, Man of La Mancha, Wicked Witch of the West, Ballet, Vaudeville, Libretto, Meet Me in St. Louis (musical), Kurt Weill, Little Mary Sunshine, For Example, Melodrama, My Fair Lady, Sweet Charity, Rodgers and Hammerstein, This Song, Singing, Show Boat, Naughty Marietta (operetta), Opera, Music Is, The Jazz Singer, Along the Way, Tin Pan Alley, Persona, Stage Show (TV series), Blackface, Annie Get Your Gun (musical), Stephen Sondheim, Judy Garland, Petruchio, Song and Dance, The Music Man, Irving Berlin, Lyricist, Theme music, Film score, Bernstein, Singin' in the Rain, Sweeney Todd, Narrative, Gypsy Rose Lee, Mary Poppins (musical), Phrase (music)