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050 00 $aML1711.5$b.M55 2007
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100 1 $aMiller, Scott,$d1964-
245 10 $aStrike up the band :$ba new history of musical theatre /$cScott Miller.
260 $aPortsmouth, NH :$bHeinemann,$cc2007.
300 $avii, 264 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aAn era exploding: 1900-1919 -- I want to be happy : the 1920s -- Anything goes : the 1930s -- Oh what a beautiful morning : the 1940s -- Something's coming : the 1950s -- Let the sun shine in : the 1960s -- In comes company : the 1970s -- Do you hear the people sing? : the 1980s -- Songs for a new world : the 1990s -- An era exploding, a century spinning : the new millennium.
520 $a"Strike Up the Band focuses not only on what happened on stage but also on how it happened and why it matters to us today. It's a different kind of history that explores the famous and, especially, the not-so famous productions to discover the lineage that paved the way to contemporary musicals. Digging into 150 shows, Miller offers a forward-looking perspective on treasures from each era--such as Anything Goes, West Side Story, Hair, and Rent--while also looking at fascinating, genre-busting, and often short-lived productions, including Bat Boy, Rocky Horror Show, Promenade, and The Capeman, to see how even obscure or commercially unsuccessful musicals defined and advanced the form. Moving decade by decade, Miller offers insight and inside information about the artistic approaches various composers, lyricists, bookwriters, and directors have taken, how those approaches have changed over time, and what social and historical forces continue to shape musical theatre today. He provides a strong sense of what groups have historically controlled the industry and how other groups' hard work and vision continue to change the musical theatre landscape for the better. In fact, Strike Up the Band opens a new and vitally important discussion of the roles played in the musical's history by people of color, by gays and lesbians, by people with disabilities, and by women. It frames musical theatre as an important, irreplaceable piece of American history and demonstrates how it reflects the social and political conditions of its time--and how it changes them." -- Publisher's description.
650 0 $aMusicals$zUnited States$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMiller, Scott, 1964-$tStrike up the band.$dPortsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2007$w(OCoLC)639829739
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