Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America

ISBN-13: 9780199832538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Laurence Maslon

Opis

Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is the first chronicle of how the songs of the American Musical Theater made their way-through sheet music, popular recordings, the radio, original cast albums, television, CDs, and the Internet-from the Theater District to living rooms across the country.

Recenzje

Broadway to Main Street is a fascinating look at show music's hold on the American imagination, and at the people who have brought its magic to the public, from Jerome Kern to Lin-Manuel Miranda, from Tin Pan Alley song pluggers to Ed Sullivan and Goddard Lieberson, from Al Jolson to Julie Andrews to John Legend. Laurence Maslon probably knows as much about American musical theater as anyone alive, but he also loves it, and it's that love, as well as his erudition, that makes Broadway to Main Street such a treat.

O autorze

Laurence Maslon is an Arts Professor and Associate Chair at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter, he is the author of several books about the musical theater, including the companion volume to the PBS series Broadway: The American Musical as well as the editor of the Library of Americas two-volume set American Musicals (1927-1969), containing sixteen classic Broadway librettos.