Media and Performance in the Musical An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical Volume 2
stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging conventions of form and content, and revivals offer audiences a different perspective on extant shows (Carousel; My Fair Lady). Television musicals broadcast live hearken back to 1950s
television's affection for musical theatre and aim to attract new audiences through the accessibility of television. Film musicals, including Les Misrables and Into the Woods, capitalize on the medium's technical capabilities of perspective and point of view, as well as visual spectacle. Television
has embraced the genre anew, and with unexpected gusto, not only devising musical episodes for countless dramatic and comedy series, but also generating musical series such as Galavant and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And animated musicals, such as Disney's Moana, hail child and adult audiences with their
dual messages, vibrant visual vocabulary, and hummable music. The chapters gathered in this book, Volume II of the reissued Oxford Handbook, explore the American musical from the various media in which musicals have been created to the different components of a musical and the people who do the work to bring a musical to life.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | MUS |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190877820 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190877828 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.81" H x 00.05" L x 40.00" W |
Page Count | 336 |
Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mitchell Morris is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.