American musical theatre has developed as an idigenous art form, with a long history, amazing vitality, and a variety of expression. Julian Mates is the first to show the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginning in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. In addition, this book is the first to explore the relationships between the various forms of musical theatre.
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“[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the Broadway opera, the book musical and other forms.... Author Julian Mates deals also with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art, noting many serious American composers and performers have contributed to the popular musical stage. Further, Mates introduces readers to inside stuff--the various types of musical companies, changing repertories, the many kinds of musical performers.”–Variety
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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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