Taste of Broadway (eBook)

Food in Musical Theater

Jennifer Packard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
214 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6732-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to reveal more about a setting, character, or situation. This book looks at the role of food in popular theater musicals illustrating how food relates to the broader world.

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Beyond being just fuel for the body, food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to tell the audience more about a setting, character, or situation. Because everyone relates to eating, food can also be used to evoke empathy, amusement, or shock from the audience. In some cases, food is central to show's plot. This book looks at popular musical theater shows to examine which foods are used, how they are used, why they are important, and how the food or usage relates to the broader world. Included are recipes for many of the foods that are significant in the shows discussed.

Autor

Jennifer Packard has nearly twenty years of experience in the food industry. She currently does freelance writing on food issues and works as a research associate at Harvard University. Jennifer loves to make up new recipes which she tests out on her husband and three teen-aged sons.

Inhalt

Conclusion: The Last Morsel

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 5 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Broadway • Culinary history • eating on Broadway • Fiddler on the Roof • Food and arts • food and broadway • Food and culture • Food and Musicals • food and stage • food and theater • food history • grease • Guys and Dolls • Gypsy • hairspray • Hello Dolly • Les Miserables • muscial theater • Musicals • Musical Theater • My Fair Lady • Oklahoma • popular culture
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-6732-1 / 1442267321
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-6732-9 / 9781442267329