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This is THE book to own about the art of American popular song, delivering even more than the title promises--complete descriptions and evaluations of the shows and films, scintillating analyses of the lyrics and musical details of individual songs, intimate biographical information about Kern, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim. Incredibly, it's frequently out of print. Buy it anyway, whatever the price. (No, I'm not selling my copy.)
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Gerald Mast was a fine writer about movies ("Howard Hawks Storyteller" is another gem and "The Comic Mind" is very good too). Here he writes not only about movie musicals but Broadway musicals. He maintains a high level of quality on both fronts.Given the two large subjects he has to cover, Mast wisely focuses on the key figures instead of trying to exhaustively cover everything. (I think he gives about 5 pages to early movie musicals, something that Barrios' "A Song in the Dark" devotes its entire length to.) However, this approach pays off tremendously thanks to Mast's wise insights. He shows how the movie musical in its heyday (42nd St. to Gigi)differed from the Broadway musical. (He is very interesting on why Rogers and Hammerstein musical films don't work, except for Sound of Music.) Also good is that Mast explores the movie musical beyond Gigi. His discussion of "Pennies from Heaven" and "Victor/Victoria" are very perceptive. With musicals supposedly "coming back," this would be a good book to make one acquainted with their historical tradition.
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If we have been taught anything at all about art, music, drama, or poetry, it is that musicals are essentially frivolous and silly diversions: lousy drama and lousy music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Warner Bros, Irving Berlin, The Band Wagon, Show Boat, Fred Astaire, South Pacific, Broadway Melody, Monte Carlo, Sbow Boat, Arthur Freed, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Man River, Richard Rodgers, Busby Berkeley, Pal Joey, Swing Time, World War, George Gershwin, Judy Garland, Shall We Dance, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Gene Kelly, The Black Crook New!
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If we have been taught anything at all about art, music, drama, or poetry, it is that musicals are essentially frivolous and silly diversions: lousy drama and lousy music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Warner Bros, Irving Berlin, The Band Wagon, Show Boat, Fred Astaire, South Pacific, Broadway Melody, Monte Carlo, Sbow Boat, Arthur Freed, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Man River, Richard Rodgers, Busby Berkeley, Pal Joey, Swing Time, World War, George Gershwin, Judy Garland, Shall We Dance, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Gene Kelly, The Black Crook New!
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- Show Boat (Vocal Selections) (Song Book) by Oscar Hammerstein II on 18 pages
- An American in Paris by Gershwin on 13 pages
- Pal Joey (Score) by Richard Rodgers on 9 pages
- Annie Get Your Gun (Vocal Selection) by Irving Berlin on 8 pages
- The Hollywood Musical, Second Edition by Jane Feuer on 7 pages
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- The Richard Rodgers Reader (Readers on American Musicians) by Geoffrey Block on 4 pages
- Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle by Martin Rubin on 4 pages
- Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Steven Cohan on page 141, page 191, and Back Matter
- Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Steven Cohan on page 141, page 191, and Back Matter
- Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (History of the American Cinema) by Tino Balio in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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