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Histories of the Musical - An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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Histories of the Musical - An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at
once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of
entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a melange of
performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and
burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to
amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make
political change. In spite of their unapologetic commercialism,
though, musicals have achieved supreme artistry and have influenced
culture as much as if not more than any other art form in America,
including avant-garde and high art on the one hand, and the full
range of popular and commercial art on the other. Reflecting,
refracting, and shaping U.S. culture since the early twentieth
century, musicals converse with shifting dynamics of gender and
sexuality, ethnicity and race, and the very question of what it
means to be American and to be human. The chapters gathered in this
book, Volume I of the reissued Oxford Handbook, explore the
American musical from both the outside and the inside. This first
volume concentrates in particular on large-scale, more
philosophical issues of relevance to the genre, considering issues
of historical situations and formal procedure as they bear on the
narratives we make concerning productions and performers, artists
and audiences, commerce and context. The first four essays discuss
ways of defining histories and texts, and apprehending the formal
choices of singers and dancers; the second group of four take up
the subtle challenges of the genre's signal transformations out of
minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley to "integration" and beyond.
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