The Routledge companion to the contemporary musical
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York ; London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge music companions
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wooman
- Part 1. Setting the stage: an introduction to analyzing the musical theater
- 1. Musical theater reception theory, or what happens when you see a show? / Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf
- 2. "[Title of chapter]" / Millie Taylor
- Part 2. Starting with the '70s
- 3. They're playing my song: the American musical in the me-decade / Bryan M. Vandevender
- 4. "My corner of the sky": adolescence and coming of age in the musicals of Stephen Schwartz / Ryan Bunch
- 5. Style as star: Bob Fosse and sixty seconds that changed Broadway / Ryan Donovan
- 6. Recreating the ephemeral: Broadway revivals since 1971 / James Lovensheimer
- Part 3. Aesthetic transformations
- 7. Sing: musical theater voices from Superstar to Hamilton / Ben Macpherson
- 8. Amplifying Broadway after the golden age / Arreanna Rostosky
- 9. Starlight expression and phantom operatics: technology, performance and the megamusical's aesthetic of the voice / Dominic Symonds
- 10. The sung and the spoken in Michael John LaChiusa's musicals / Alex Bádue
- 11. The new "sounds of Broadway": orchestrating electronic instruments in contemporary musicals / Michael M. Kennedy
- 12. Chart-toppers to showstoppers: pop artists scoring the Broadway stage / Matthew Lockitt
- 13. Scenographic aesthetics and automated technologies in Broadway musicals / Christin Essin
- Part 4. Reading the musical through gender
- 14. Do-re-#MeToo: women, work and representation in the Broadway musical / Mary Jo Lodge
- 15. It's still working: collaborating to perform the stories of everyday Americans, then and now / Trudi Wright
- 16. The pink elephant in the room / Aaron C. Thomas
- 17. "A little more mascara": drag and the Broadway musical from La cage aux folles to Kinky boots / John M. Clum
- Part 5. Reading the musical through race and ethnicity
- 18. The multiracial musical metropolis: casting and race after A chorus line / Todd Decker
- 19. "Before the parade passes by": all-black and all-Asian Hello, dolly! as celebration of difference / Sissi Liu
- 20. Race and the city: racial formation in Avenue Q / SAJones
- 21. Can we "Leave behind the world we know"? exploring race and ethnicity in the musicals of Lin-Manuel Miranda / Elizabeth Titrington Craft
- 22. Falsettos and indecent in the shadow of Fiddler on the roof: reconsidering Jewish identity on Broadway in the new millennium / Raymond Knapp and Zelda Knapp
- Part 6. Reading the musical through dance
- 23. What makes a musical? Contact (2000) and debates about genre at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Joanna Dee Das
- 24. Dance in musical theater revival and adaptation: engaging with the past while creating dances for the present / Liza Gennaro
- 25. The convergence of dance styles in Hamilton: an American musical / Phoebe Rumsey
- Part 7. Reading the musical through interdisciplinary lenses
- 26. Post-secular musicals in a post-truth world / Jake Johnson
- 27. Let's do the time warp again: performing time, genre, and spectatorship / Sarah Taylor Ellis
- 28. The eye of the storm: reading next to normal with psychoanalysis / Aleksei Grinenko
- 29. Parent/child relationships in the musicals of Stephen Schwartz / Paul R. Laird
- 30. John Kander: the first ninety-one years / James Leve
- 31. Unlikely subjects: the critical reception of history musicals / Elissa Harbert
- Part 8. Beyond Broadway: new media and fan studies
- 32. Worshipping Lin-Manuel Miranda: fans and totems in the digital age / Jessica Hillman-McCord
- 33. "Trash talk and virtual protests: the musical genre's personal and political interactivity in the age of social media" / Kelly Kessler
- 34. The great generational divide: stage-to-screen Hollywood musical adaptations and the enactment of fandom / Holley Replogle-Wong
- 35. Play it again (and again, and again): the superfan and musical theater / James Deaville
- 36. Joss Whedon and the geek musical / Renée Camus
- 37. "YouTube! musicals! YouTubesicals!" cultivating theater fandom through new media / Aya Esther Hayashi
- 38. Dual-focus strategy in a serial narrative: SMASH, Nashville, and the television musical series / Robynn Stilwell
- Part 9. Growth and expansion: across the country and around the world
- 39. Sharon McQueen and Milwaukee's alternative regional musical theater / Amanda McQueen
- 40. Musicals in the regional theater / Jeffrey Ullom
- 41. Big river: a new road to Broadway / Steven Adler
- 42. The third biggest market: musical theater in Germany since 1990 / Frédéric Döhl
- 43. The Korean self/American other: Korean musical theater in the context of national cultural development / Hyunjung Lee
- 44. The lion king: an international history / Susan Bennett