Echoes Of The Holocaust On The American Musical Stage

Author : Jessica Hillman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786466023

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Echoes of the Holocaust on the American Musical Stage by Jessica Hillman Pdf

With chapters on The Sound of Music, Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Rothschilds, Rags, Ragtime and The Producers, this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or resonances of, the Holocaust, tracing changing American attitudes through the chronological progression of these musical productions and their subsequent revivals. Despite the abundance of writing on both musical theatre history and on the difficulties of Holocaust representation, history and theatre scholars alike have thus far ignored the intersections of these areas. The academy thereby risks excluding precisely those works that shed the most light on our culture's evolving response to the Shoah, an event that still helps to define American identity. This book redresses this lapse by focusing on the theatrical form seen by the greatest amount of people--musicals--which either trigger or reflect changing American mores.

Author : Robert Gordon,Olaf Jubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190909734

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The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical by Robert Gordon,Olaf Jubin Pdf

The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own musical theatre industries, not only by importing hit shows from Broadway and London but also by establishing or reviving local traditions of musical theatre. In response to the rapid growth of musical theatre as a global phenomenon, The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical presents new scholarly approaches to issues arising from these new international markets. The volume examines the stage musical from theoretical and empirical perspectives including concepts of globalization and consumer culture, performance and musicological analysis, historical and cultural studies, media studies, notions of interculturalism and hybridity, gender studies, and international politics. The thirty-three essays investigate major aspects of the global musical, such as the dominance of Western colonialism in its early production and dissemination, racism and sexism--both in representation and in the industry itself--as well as current conflicts between global and local interests in postmodern cultures. Featuring contributors from seventeen countries, the essays offer informed insider perspectives that reflect the diversity of the subject and offer in-depth examinations of specific cultural and economic systems. Together, they conduct penetrating comparative analysis of musical theatre in different contexts as well as a survey of the transcultural spread of musicals.

Author : Tina Frühauf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442258402

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Experiencing Jewish Music in America by Tina Frühauf Pdf

Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States. This much-needed survey on the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic and diverse musical culture invites listeners curious about the many types of music in its connection to Jewish life. Experiencing Jewish Music in America is intended to encourage further reading about, listening to, and viewing of this portion of America’s musical heritage, and provide listeners with the tools to understand and appreciate this body of work. This volume is designed to appeal to listeners of all stripes, regardless of ability to read music, and of religious or cultural background. Experiencing Jewish Music in America offers insights into an extensive range of musical genres and styles that have been central to the Jewish experience, beginning with the arrival of the first Jewish immigrants in the sixteenth century and the chanting of the Torah, to the sounds of pop today. It lays the groundwork for the listener’s understanding of music in its relation to Jewish studies by exploring the wide range of venues in which this music has appeared, from synagogue to street to stage to screen. Each chapter offers selected case studies where these unique forms of music were—and still can be—heard, seen, and experienced. This book gives readers unique insights into the challenges of classifying Jewish music, while it traces its history and development on American soil and outlines “ways of listening” so readers can draw clear connections to Jewish culture. The volume thus brings together American Jewish history, the story of American and Jewish music, and the roles of the individuals important to both. It offers the reader tools to identify, evaluate, and appreciate the musical genres, and reflect the growing interest of the past decade in the academic study of Jewish music.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123599868

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Minnesota Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica Hillman-McCord
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319648767

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iBroadway by Jessica Hillman-McCord Pdf

This book argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast. In the first hundred years of its existence, commercial musical theatre functioned on one basic model. However, with the advent of digital and network technologies, every musical theatre artist and professional has had to adjust to swift and unanticipated change. Due to the historically commercial nature of the musical theatre form, it offers a more potent test case to reveal the implications of this digital shift than other theatrical art forms. Rather than merely reflecting technological change, musical theatre scholarship and practice is at the forefront of the conversation about art in the digital age. This book is essential reading for musical theatre fans and scholars alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Theater
ISBN : MINN:319510012212717

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American Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1866 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Home video systems industry
ISBN : UOM:39015046780584

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Bowker's Complete Video Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057473343

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International Who's who in Classical Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Theater
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012081258

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Theatre Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Kenrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474267021

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Musical Theatre by John Kenrick Pdf

Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students.

Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545576505

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Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan Pdf

Newbery Honor Book New York Times Bestseller This impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller follows three children, in three different times and places, whose lives mysteriously intersect. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo. Richly imagined and masterfully crafted, Echo pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation to create a wholly original novel that will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.

Author : Ellen Schiff
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015062488617

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Awake and Singing by Ellen Schiff Pdf

This first volume in a two-volume anthology presents the history and evolution of Jewish plays (1920-1960), from the social realism and political concerns of Elmer Rice and Clifford Odets to the urban wit of Neil Simon and Wendy Wasserstein. Many of these plays are unavailable in any other format. (Drama)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Current events
ISBN : UOM:39015025675110

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Newsweek by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN : UCSC:32106020412273

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The Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106009129278

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Choice by Anonim Pdf