The Routledge companion to the contemporary musical / / edited by Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 pages)
• Disciplina: 782.14
• Soggetto topico: Musicals - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): SternfeldJessica <1971->; WollmanElizabeth L. <1969->
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 Setting the Stage: An Introduction to Analyzing the Musical Theater -- 1 Musical Theater Reception Theory, or What Happens When You See a Show? -- 2 "[Title of Chapter]" -- PART 2 Starting with the '70s -- 3 They're Playing My Song: The American Musical in the Me-Decade -- 4 "My Corner of the Sky": Adolescence and Coming of Age in the Musicals of Stephen Schwartz -- 5 Style as Star: Bob Fosse and Sixty Seconds That Changed Broadway -- 6 Recreating the Ephemeral: Broadway Revivals since 1971 -- PART 3 Aesthetic Transformations -- 7 Sing: Musical Theater Voices from Superstar to Hamilton -- 8 Amplifying Broadway after the Golden Age -- 9 Starlight Expression and Phantom Operatics: Technology, Performance, and the Megamusical's Aesthetic of the Voice -- 10 The Sung and the Spoken in Michael John LaChiusa's Musicals -- 11 The New "Sounds of Broadway": Orchestrating Electronic Instruments in Contemporary Musicals -- 12 Chart-Toppers to Showstoppers: Pop Artists Scoring the Broadway Stage -- 13 Scenographic Aesthetics and Automated Technologies in Broadway Musicals -- PART 4 Reading the Musical through Gender -- 14 Do-Re-#MeToo: Women, Work, and Representation in the Broadway Musical -- 15 It's Still Working: Collaborating to Perform the Stories of Everyday Americans, Then and Now -- 16 The Pink Elephant in the Room -- 17 "A Little More Mascara": Drag and the Broadway Musical from La Cage aux Folles to Kinky Boots -- PART 5 Reading the Musical through Race and Ethnicity -- 18 The Multiracial Musical Metropolis: Casting and Race after A Chorus Line -- 19 "Before the Parade Passes By": All-Black and All-Asian Hello, Dolly! as Celebration of Difference -- 20 Race and the City: Racial Formation in Avenue Q. ; 21 Can We "Leave Behind the World We Know"?: Exploring Race and Ethnicity in the Musicals of Lin-Manuel Miranda -- 22 Falsettos and Indecent in the Shadow of Fiddler on the Roof: Reconsidering Jewish Identity on Broadway in the New Millennium -- PART 6 Reading the Musical through Dance -- 23 What Makes a Musical?: Contact (2000) and Debates about Genre at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century -- 24 Dance in Musical Theater Revival and Adaptation: Engaging with the Past While Creating Dances for the Present -- 25 The Convergence of Dance Styles in Hamilton: An American Musical -- PART 7 Reading the Musical through Interdisciplinary Lenses -- 26 Post-Secular Musicals in a Post-Truth World -- 27 Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Performing Time, Genre, and Spectatorship -- 28 The Eye of the Storm: Reading Next to Normal with Psychoanalysis -- 29 Parent/Child Relationships in the Musicals of Stephen Schwartz -- 30 John Kander: The First Ninety-Two Years -- 31 Unlikely Subjects: The Critical Reception of History Musicals -- PART 8 Beyond Broadway: New Media and Fan Studies -- 32 Worshipping Lin-Manuel Miranda: Fans and Totems in the Digital Age -- 33 "Trash Talk and Virtual Protests": The Musical Genre's Personal and Political Interactivity in the Age of Social Media -- 34 The Great Generational Divide: Stage-to-Screen Hollywood Musical Adaptations and the Enactment of Fandom -- 35 Play It Again (and Again, and Again): The Superfan and Musical Theater -- 36 Joss Whedon and the Geek Musical -- 37 "YouTube! Musicals! YouTubesicals!": Cultivating Theater Fandom through New Media -- 38 Dual-Focus Strategy in a Serial Narrative: Smash, Nashville, and the Television Musical Series -- PART 9 Growth and Expansion: Across the Country and Around the World -- 39 Sharon McQueen And Milwaukee's Alternative Regional Musical Theater -- 40 Musicals in the Regional Theater. ; 41 Big River: A New Road to Broadway -- 42 The Third Biggest Market: Musical Theater in Germany since 1990 -- 43 The Korean Self/American Other: Korean Musical Theater in the Context of National Cultural Development -- 44 The Lion King: An International History -- Author Biographies -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical's evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and earlytwenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural tenor of the times, but have helped shape and influence it, in America and across the globe: a genre that may seem, at first glance, light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-four essays examine the contemporary musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture. This volume sheds new light on the American musical as a thriving, contemporary performing arts genre, one that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential, in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present, the American musical is a live, localized, old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized, tech-savvy, intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly, as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal, the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway--the idea, if not the place--and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Routledge companion to the contemporary musical
• ISBN: 1-134-85185-5; 1-315-54370-2; 1-134-85178-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966362903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II