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The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive
academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a
historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a
range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and
features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values
and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise
to the American musical and later challenged its modern
pre-eminence. After a consideration of how John Gay's The Beggar's
Opera (1728) created a prototype for eighteenth-century ballad
opera, the book focuses on the use of song in early nineteenth
century theatre, followed by a sociocultural analysis of the comic
operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; it then examines Edwardian and
interwar musical comedies and revues as well as the impact of
Rodgers and Hammerstein on the West End, before analysing the new
forms of the postwar British musical from The Boy Friend (1953) to
Oliver! (1960). One section of the book examines the contributions
of key twentieth century figures including Noel Coward, Ivor
Novello, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Joan Littlewood
and producer Cameron Macintosh, while a number of essays discuss
both mainstream and alternative musicals of the 1960s and 1970s and
the influence of the pop industry on the creation of concept
recordings such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Les Miserables
(1980). There is a consideration of "jukebox" musicals such as
Mamma Mia! (1999), while essays on overtly political shows such as
Billy Elliot (2005) are complemented by those on experimental
musicals like Jerry Springer: the Opera (2003) and London Road
(2011) and on the burgeoning of Black and Asian British musicals in
both the West End and subsidized venues. The Oxford Handbook of the
British Musical demonstrates not only the unique qualities of
British musical theatre but also the vitality and variety of
British musicals today.
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