Media and Performance in the Musical

An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 2
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-087782-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging conventions of form and content, and revivals offer audiences a different perspective on extant shows (Carousel; My Fair Lady). Television musicals broadcast live hearken back to 1950s television's affection for musical theatre and aim to attract new audiences through the accessibility of television. Film musicals, including Les Misérables and Into the Woods, capitalize on the medium's technical capabilities of perspective and point of view, as well as visual spectacle. Television has embraced the genre anew, and with unexpected gusto, not only devising musical episodes for countless dramatic and comedy series, but also generating musical series such as Galavant and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And animated musicals, such as Disney's Moana, hail child and adult audiences with their dual messages, vibrant visual vocabulary, and hummable music.

The chapters gathered in this book, Volume II of the reissued Oxford Handbook, explore the American musical from the various media in which musicals have been created to the different components of a musical and the people who do the work to bring a musical to life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knapp, Raymond

Morris, Mitchell

Wolf, Stacy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Musicals

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction by Raymond Knapp

- Part I. Media

- 1. Theater

- Tamsen Wolff

- 2. The Filmed Musical

- Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris

- 3. The Television Musical

- Robynn J. Stilwell

- 4. The Animated Film Musical

- Susan Smith

- 5. The Evolution of the Original Cast Album

- George Reddick

- Part II. Performance

- 6. The Institutional Structure of the American Musical Theater

- David Sanjek

- 7. Orchestration and Arrangement: Creating the Broadway Sound

- Dominic Symonds

- 8. Musical Theater Directors

- Barbara Wallace Grossman

- 9. Sets, Costumes, Lights, and Spectacle

- Virginia Anderson

- 10. Acting

- John M. Clum

- 11. Singing

- Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp

- 12. Dance and Choreography

- Zachary A. Dorsey

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mitchell Morris is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.