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Author Knapp, Raymond.

Title The American musical and the performance of personal identity / Raymond Knapp
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 470 pages) : illustrations
Contents Personal genres. The Viennese connection : Franz Lehár and American operetta (The merry widow (1907). Naughty Marietta (1910). Little Mary Sunshine (1959). A little night music (1973)) -- The movie musical (Singin' in the rain (film, 1952). Stormy weather (film, 1943) and Bamboozled (film, 2000). Meet me in St. Louis (film, 1944). Moulin Rouge (film, 2001) and Chicago (film, 2002))
Summary The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. --From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-447) and index
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Subject Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism
Musicals -- Social aspects -- United States
Personality and culture.
Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Musicals.
Musical films
Motion pictures
Musicals
Personality and culture
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005038029
ISBN 9781400832682
1400832683