"In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revu…
"In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revu…
British theatre in the Great War: a revaluation
Dealing with an overlooked theatrical phase of 20th-century developments, this text reveals a period of unsurpassed prosperity in which the stage made a substantial contribution to the war effort. Examines scripts and press coverage, it gives an overview from popular pantomime t…
Millie Taylor challenges existing thinking on musical theatre. She suggests that 'integration', created through the signification of 'realism' and attributed particularly to the book musical, is simply a construction.
In Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment, Millie Taylor explores the ways in which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. Taylor investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and spectacular performances.
This Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical provides the perfect introductory text for students of theatre, music and cultural studies. It traces the history and development of the industry and art form in America with a particular focus on its artistic and commercial …
The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers
The Palgrave handbook of musical theatre producers
"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson …
"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre ... dominated by women ... achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian W…
"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson …
Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. The emergence of "Westernized" music from China -concurrent with the technological advances that have mad…
'Entertaining Lisbon' explores Portuguese entertainment as a form of negotiation between local, national, and transnational influences on identity. Connecting gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making, author J…