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Brahms and the challenge of the symphony
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ISBN: 9780945193906 0945193904 Year: 1997 Publisher: Stuyvesant Pendragon

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The American musical and the performance of personal identity
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ISBN: 0691125244 9780691125244 0691141053 9786612692123 1400832683 1282692127 9781400832682 9781282692121 9780691141053 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin' in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz. Complementing the author's earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike.


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Making light : Haydn, musical camp, and the long shadow of German idealism
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ISBN: 0822369354 0822372401 0822369508 1478090340 Year: 2018 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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Traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. The author identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a strain of high camp - a mode of engagement that relishes both the superficial and serious aspects of an aesthetic experience - that runs antithetical to German Idealism's musical paradigms. By considering the disservice done to Haydn by German Idealism alongside the emergence of musical camp in American popular music, the author outlines a common ground: a humanistically based aesthetic of shared pleasure that points to ways in which camp receptive modes might rejuvenate the original appeal of Haydn's music that has mostly eluded audiences. In so doing, the author remaps the historiographical modes and systems of critical evaluation that dominate musicology while troubling the divide between serious and popular music.


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The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity
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ISBN: 9780691186207 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Symphonic metamorphoses : subjectivity and alienation in Mahler's re-cycled songs
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ISBN: 0819566357 9780819566362 0819566365 Year: 2003 Publisher: Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press


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The Oxford handbook of the American musical
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ISBN: 9780195385946 9780199987368 0195385942 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford New York [etc.] Oxford University Press

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The Oxford handbook of the American musical
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ISBN: 0199940711 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This text presents keywords and critical terms that deepen analysis and interpretation of the musical. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of American musicals.

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