Mates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critical reactions to popular theatrical forms of musical entertainment. He introduces the reader to various types of theatrical companies, the changing repertory, and the many kinds of musical performers who have animated the stage. Mates focuses on the creative relationships between the different forms of opera, the minstrel show and circus, melodrama and dance, burlesque, revue, vaudeville, and musical comedy.
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“In this history Mates stresses the long tradition of musical theater in the US, reaching back to the pre-Revolutionary period. This tradition has incorporated, over the years, elements from all other forms of theatrical entertainment--opera, melodrama, circus, ballet, vaudeville, minstrel shows, and burlesque.... Through his emphasis on early theater--an outgrowth of his The American Musical Stage Before 1800 (1962)--Mates refutes histories that begin their accounts with The Black Crook of 1866.... The work is well documented, and the author provides a bibliographical essay as well as a short index.... With its wealth of information about the musical's earlier years and its scholarly approach, the volume is recommended for academic libraries and larger public libraries.”–Choice
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JULIAN MATES is Professor of English at C.W. Post College.
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New York, The Black Crook, United States, Civil War, San Francisco, Show Boat, American Opera, Jim Crow, Irving Berlin, Fanny Elssler, Lincoln Center, Mulligan Guard, Jerome Robbins, New Orleans, The Beggar's Opera, John Durang, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, Indigenous Form, West Side Story, Agnes de Mille, Los Angeles, The Archers Browse Sample Pages:
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New York, The Black Crook, United States, Civil War, San Francisco, Show Boat, American Opera, Jim Crow, Irving Berlin, Fanny Elssler, Lincoln Center, Mulligan Guard, Jerome Robbins, New Orleans, The Beggar's Opera, John Durang, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, Indigenous Form, West Side Story, Agnes de Mille, Los Angeles, The Archers Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music) by William A. Everett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The World's Music : General Perspectives and Reference Tools (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 10) by Ruth M. Stone on page 369, and page 377
- Early Operetta in America: The Doctor of Alcantara (1879) (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater Series) by Charlotte Kaufman in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Collected Works of Alfred B. Sedgwick, Volume 7: Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater by Michael Meckna in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Collected Works of John Hill Hewitt by N. Lee Orr in Front Matter
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