Hip-Hop culture’s explosive arrival on the art scene of New York
in the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx in the 1970s began to
influence all aspects of musical theater from singing to scenic
design. Hip-Hop in Musical Theatre takes an intersectional
standpoint to explore Hip-Hop’s influence on musical theater
practice and aesthetics by giving the reader a comprehensive map of
musical theater productions that have been impacted by Hip-Hop
music and culture. Offering insightful briefs on musical theater
productions that contain aesthetic, musical and embodied references
to the global phenomenon of Hip-hop culture, this volume takes the
reader through a virtual tour of Hip-Hop’s influence on American
musical theater. From early traces of hip-hop’s rap scene in the
1970s that appeared in musicals such as Micki Grant’s Tony Award
nominated Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope (1971) and Broadway
smash hits such as The Wiz (1974) to international juggernauts such
as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (2015), this introductory book
decodes the sights and sounds of Hip-Hop culture within the
socio-cultural context in which the musicals are produced.
Published in the Topics in Musical Theatre series this volume
presents fact-filled and insightful summaries of musicals that give
the reader a snapshot of the musical and narrative content while
highlighting which aspect of the music and culture of Hip-Hop
informs acting, dancing, singing, design, and music in the selected
musical while offering insightful analysis on the ways that hip-hop
styles and politics have changed the shape of musical theater
practice.
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