The American Musical

ISBN-13: 9780367556600 / Twarda / 2024 / 392 str.

Ben West

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The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musical’s artistic evolution over the course of seven distinct, newly defined eras.

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Part 1: Inventions, Influences, and Imports (1800s)  1. Minstrelsy  2. The Variety Show  3. The Legitimate Musical Stage  4. Ragtime and Coon Songs Part 2: Birth of an Art Form (1900-1924)  5. Vaudeville, Part One: Time and Talent  6. Vaudeville, Part Two: Tin Pan Alley  7. Vaudeville, Part Three: Sketches and Tabs  8. Burlesque  9. Bob Cole and the Black Musical Stage  10. The Early Musical Comedy  11. Revue  12. The Great Winter Garden Factory  13. The Hippodrome Shows  14. The Spectacular Musical Play  15. American Operetta  16. The Princess Musicals  17. Nightclubs, Part One: Folies Bergère, etc.  18. The Great War, Prohibition, and Women’s Suffrage  19. Jazz, Part One: The Musicians  20. Jazz, Part Two: The Musicals  21. The New Musical Comedy  22. Shuffle Along and the Black Renaissance  Part 3: Intensification (1925-1930)  23. Nightclubs, Part Two: The Plantation, etc.  24. Pleasure Bound  25. Howard Dietz and the New Revue  26. Jazz Age Musical Comedy, Part One: The Tunersmiths  27. Jazz Age Musical Comedy, Part Two: The Adventurers  28. Oscar Hammerstein II and the Musical Play  Part 4: Convention, or Maturity, Part One: Craft and Construction (1931-1950)   29. Sophisticated Revue  30. The Sophisticated Musical Stage  31. Nightclubs, Part Three: Casino de Paree, etc.  32. The African-American Exit  33. Hollywood and the Popular Song  34. The Second World War  35. Integrated Folktales  36. The Musical Comedy Stage  37. The Abbott Touch  38. Guys and Dolls  Part 5: Convention, or Maturity, Part Two: Style and Structure (1951-1970)  39. Character and Quirks and Comedy and Farce  40. The New Musical Play  41. Staging and Story  42. Nontraditional Storytelling  43. Hair vs. Your Own Thing  44. Off-Broadway  Part 6: Diminution (1971-1980)  45. Nostalgia, Revivals, and Reinventions  46. The All-Purpose Revue  47. The African-American Resurgence  48. Contemporary Sounds, Part One: Andrew Lloyd Webber, etc.  49. A Chorus Line  50. Sophisticated Storytelling  Part 7: Growing Pains, or Identity Crisis (1981-1999)  51. Dialogue, Song, and Dance  52. George C. Wolfe and the Black Musical Stage  53. Contemporary Sounds, Part Two: Jonathan Larson, etc.  54. Revivals  55. Miscellany

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Ben West is a musical theatre artist and historian. He has worked in various capacities on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally, and created and directed Unsung Carolyn Leigh for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.