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American Musicals in Context - Thomas A. Greenfield

American Musicals in Context

From the American Revolution to the 21st Century
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2021
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-4408-6540-4 (ISBN)
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American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.

With the hit musical Hamilton (2015) captivating audiences and reshaping the way early U.S. history is taught and written about, this book offers insight into an array of musicals that explore U.S. history. The work provides a synopsis, overview of critical and audience reception, and historical context and analysis for each of 20 musicals selected for the unique and illuminating way they present the American story on the stage.

Specifically, this volume explores musicals that have centered their themes, characters, and plots on some aspect of America's complex and ever-changing history. Each in its own way helps us rediscover pivotal national crises, key political decisions, defining moral choices, unspeakable and unresolved injustices, important and untold stories, defeats suffered, victories won in the face of monumental adversity, and the sacrifices borne publicly and privately in the process of creating the American narrative, one story at a time. Students will come away from the volume armed with the critical thinking skills necessary to discern fact from fiction in U.S. history.

Thomas A. Greenfield is professor of English emeritus and former dean of the College at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Allegiance (2012)
American Idiot (2009)
Atomic (2013)
Ben Franklin in Paris (1964)
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2008)
The Civil War (1999)
The Cradle Will Rock (1937)
Dearest Enemy (1925)
Falsettos (1992)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1967)
Hamilton: An American Musical (2015)
I'd Rather Be Right (1937)
Newsies (2011)
Parade (1998)
Ragtime (1996)
Raisin (1973)
The Scottsboro Boys (2010)
1776 (1969, rev. 1997)
Shenandoah (1974)
War Paint (2016)
About the Author and Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4408-6540-X / 144086540X
ISBN-13 978-1-4408-6540-4 / 9781440865404
Zustand Neuware
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