The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical

Herausgeber: Wollman, Elizabeth L.; Sternfeld, Jessica

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musicalâ s evolving relationship to American culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Music Companions
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 176mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 916g
• ISBN-13: 9781032240541
• ISBN-10: 1032240547
• Artikelnr.: 62951866

Autorenporträt

Jessica Sternfeld is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the BA in Music at Chapman University. Elizabeth L. Wollman is Professor of Music at Baruch College, CUNY, and a member of the doctoral faculty in the theater department at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Inhaltsangabe

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)