| Approaches To The American Musical Contributor(s): Lawson-Peebles, Robert (Editor), Banfield, Stephen (Contribution by), Harvey, Ann-Charlotte Hanes (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0859894053 ISBN-13: 9780859894050 Publisher: University of Exeter Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal |
| Dewey: 782.14 |
| Series: Exeter Studies in American and Commonwealth Arts |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.73" W x 9.01" (0.56 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form. Going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist; these examinations of American stage and film musicals argue that Porgy and Bess, Top Hat, Kiss Me Kate and All That Jazz were popular precisely because they engaged with such important American issues as ethnicity, commerce and international relations. |