Carol J. Oja (William Powell Mason Professor of Music and American

Bernstein Meets Broadway

Collaborative Art in a Time of War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With an innovative historical framework, Carol J. Oja explores the emergence during World War II of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green.

Produktdetails

• Broadway Legacies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780190467586
• ISBN-10: 0190467584
• Artikelnr.: 47868758

Autorenporträt

Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music and American Studies at Harvard University. She is author of Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000), winner of the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Section I: Ballet, Nightclubs, Broadway
* 1.Youthful Celebrity and Progressive Visions: Breaking Out with Fancy
Free
* 2. From Nightclubs to Broadway: The Revuers, Comedy Skits, and
Progressive Politics
* 3. Creating a Broadway Musical: The Conception and Debut of On the
Town
* Section II: Staging Racial Politics
* 4. A Japanese American Star on Broadway: Sono Osato and "Exotic Ivy
Smith"
* 5. Desegregating Broadway: On the Town and Race
* 6. Biographies on Stage: On the Town's Black Conductor, Dancers, and
Singers
* Section III: Musical Style
* 7. Crossover Composition: The Musical Styles of On the Town
* 8. On the Town After Dark: The Nightclub Scene
* Section IV: Epilogue
* Appendices
* A. Discography and Videography of Fancy Free, On the Town, and The
Revuers
* B. Scenario for Fancy Free
* C. Cast List for On the Town on Opening Night
* Index