Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

Jake Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2021
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08599-4 (ISBN)

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The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater’s inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religion—imagining a better world while creating opportunities to expand what is possible in the current one. Whether it is the Oklahoma Senior Follies or a Mormon splinter group’s production of The Sound of Music, such productions give people a chance to jolt themselves out of today’s post-truth malaise and move toward a world more in line with their desires for justice, reconciliation, and community. Vibrant and strikingly original, Lying in the Middle discovers some of the most potent musical theater taking place in the hoping, beating hearts of Americans.

Jake Johnson is an associate professor of musicology at Oklahoma City University and the author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsA Brief History of this Book1Stories Out of Place2Re-Placing the American Musical3Fundamentalism, Produced4Biblically Accurate5Everything Old Is New Again6Mezza Voce7The Afterlives of Truth and MusicalsNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	2 black & white photographs, 1 line drawing, 7 music examples
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	0-252-08599-X / 025208599X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08599-4 / 9780252085994
Zustand	Neuware