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Dueling Grounds - Revolution and Revelation in the Musical Hamilton (Paperback)
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Dueling Grounds - Revolution and Revelation in the Musical Hamilton (Paperback)
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Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the
hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda -
who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role -
adapted the show from Ron Chernow's biography Alexander Hamilton.
Although it seems an unlikely source for a Broadway musical,
Miranda found a liminal space where the life that Hamilton led and
the issues that he confronted came alive more than two centuries
later while also commenting on contemporary life in the United
States and how we view our nation's history. With a score largely
based on rap and drawing on other aspects of hip-hop culture, and
staged with actors of color playing the white Founding Fathers,
Hamilton has much to say about race in the United States today and
in our past, but at the same time it leaves important things
insufficiently explained, such as the role of women and people of
color in Hamilton's time. Dueling Grounds: Revolution and
Revelation in the Musical Hamilton is a volume that combines the
work of theater scholars and practitioners, musicologists, and
scholars in such fields as ethnomusicology, history, gender
studies, and economics in a multi-faceted approach to the show's
varied uses of liminality, looking at its creation, casting
philosophy, dance and movement, costuming, staging, direction,
lyrics, music, marketing, and how aspects of race, gender, and
class fit into the show and its production. Demonstrating that
there is much to celebrate, as well as challenging issues to
confront concerning Hamilton, Dueling Grounds is an uncompromising
look at one of the most important musicals of the century.
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