{"product_id":"histories-of-the-musical-an-oxford-handbook-of-the-american-musical-volume-1-paperback","title":"Histories of the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaymond Knapp\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMitchell Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStacy Wolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In spite of their unapologetic commercialism, though, musicals have achieved supreme artistry and have influenced culture as much as if not more than any other art form in America, including avant-garde and high art on the one hand, and the full range of popular and commercial art on the other. Reflecting, refracting, and shaping U.S. culture since the early twentieth century, musicals converse with shifting dynamics of gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, and the very question of what it means to be American and to be human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters gathered in this book, Volume I of the reissued\u003cem\u003e Oxford Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the American musical from both the outside and the inside. This first volume concentrates in particular on large-scale, more philosophical issues of relevance to the genre, considering issues of historical situations and formal procedure as they bear on the narratives we make concerning productions and performers, artists and audiences, commerce and context. The first four essays discuss ways of defining histories and texts, and apprehending the formal choices of singers and dancers; the second group of four take up the subtle challenges of the genre's signal transformations out of minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley to \"integration\" and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaymond Knapp \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMitchell Morris\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStacy Wolf \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor in the Program in Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52963899933039,"sku":"9780190877767","price":45.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/0180\/5167\/files\/RVpneGkxWFNLWFNJZHdFTTlBYnVlUT09.webp?v=1779082751","url":"https:\/\/foundationsusallc.org\/products\/histories-of-the-musical-an-oxford-handbook-of-the-american-musical-volume-1-paperback","provider":"Foundations USA LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}