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A Tanner's Worth of Tune - Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (Hardcover)
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A Tanner's Worth of Tune - Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (Hardcover)
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This book examines the progress of the British musical in the
twentieth century as it struggled to find an identity, stepping out
of the shadow of its American counterpart. With a wealth of
contemporary photographs and memorabilia, it looks at the
contribution of key figures - from Ivor Novello to Lionel - in
lively and engaging prose. A Tanner's Worth of Tune is the first
book to be written on the post-war British musical, and the first
major assessment of the British musical for a quarter of a century,
reviving interest in a vast archive of musicals that have been
dismissed to the footnotes of theatrical history. This timely
reappraisal of the genre and its social background, before the
"international" British musicals began appearing in the 1970s,
argues for a radical understanding of the shows and their writers,
and a rethinking of our attitude towards them. The musical plays of
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward - both pre- and post-war - are
discussed in detail, as are the two composers who came todominate
the 1950s, Sandy Wilson and Julian Slade, and the little school of
plein air musicals that threaded through that decade. The book
brings together 'adopted' British musicals, discusses the rise and
fall of the British "verismo" and the biomusical, whether of Dr
Crippen or the Rector of Stiffkey, finally charting the collapse of
the British musical's nationalism in the 1960s as witnessed by John
Osborne and Lionel Bart. The book draws on Adrian Wright's lifelong
passion for British theatre music, its writers, composers,
performers and craftsmen. Provocative, idiosyncratic and
unfailingly entertaining, A Tanner's Worth of Tune makes a
compelling plea for a rediscovery of an era of pleasures which have
too long been forgotten. ADRIAN WRIGHT is the author of Foreign
Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley [(1996), John Lehmann: A Pagan
Adventure (1998), The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of
William Alwyn [2008] and the novel Maroon (2010). He lives in
Norfolk, where he also runs Must Close Saturday Records, a company
dedicated to British musical theatre.
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