The new music theater [[electronic resource] ] : seeing the voice, hearing the body / / Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi

• Autore: Salzman Eric
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 408 p. : ill., music
• Disciplina: 810.9892
• Soggetto topico: Music theater - 20th century - History and criticism; Drama - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: DezsyThomas <1967->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-381) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Is Music Theater? -- part i: Music in Music Theater -- Chapter 1: The Voice -- Chapter 2: Where the Sound Comes From -- entr'acte i: Is there such a thing as progress in opera or music theater? -- Chapter 3: The Music -- part ii: Theater in Music Theater -- Chapter 4: Cultural Narratives and Performance Institutions -- entr'acte ii: A woman's earring, a diamond necklace, a knee, a yogi in meditation, drawing, a mahout looking after an elephant: the language of Kathakali -- Chapter 5: Text -- Chapter 6: Visual Strategies -- Chapter 7: Space -- entr'acte iii: A theater of warm bodies? -- part iii: Putting It All Together: La Mise en Scène -- Chapter 8: The American Eccentrics -- Chapter 9: Music Theater as Musiktheater -- Chapter 10: From the Homeland: Teatro Musicale -- Chapter 11: Théâtre Musical -- Chapter 12: Music Theater in Northern Europe -- entr'acte iv: The art form that never happened -- Chapter 13: Downtown -- Chapter 14: Minimalism and Music Theater -- Chapter 15: The Show Must Go On -- Chapter 16: The Art of the In-Between -- Chapter 17: Extended Voice -- Chapter 18: New Media and Music Theater -- entr'acte v: . . . and how did you like it? -- part iv: After the Show: Taking It Apart -- Chapter 19: Toward a Theory of the New Music Theater -- Chapter 20: Notation versus Improvisation? -- Chapter 21: Popular or High Art? -- Chapter 22: Is Anyone Listening? -- Appendix I: A Quick Summary of the History of Music Theater -- Appendix II: Selected Reading -- Appendix III: Some Festivals and Performance Institutions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover this still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book provides a wealth of examples and descriptions not only of the works themselves, but of the concepts, ideas, and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world. Authors Salzman and Desi consider the subject of music theatre from a social as well as artistic point of view, exploring how theatre works in culture, and how music works in the theatre.
• Titolo autorizzato: The new music theater
• ISBN: 0-19-972321-4; 1-281-86820-5; 9786611868208
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824773103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II