Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is the first chronicle of how the songs of the American Musical Theater made their way-through sheet music, popular recordings, the radio, original cast albums, television, CDs, and the Internet-from the Theater District to living rooms across the country.
Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is the first chronicle of how the songs of the American Musical Theater made their way-through sheet music, popular recordings, the radio, original cast albums, television, CDs, and the Internet-from the Theater District to living rooms across the country.
Laurence Maslon is an Arts Professor and Associate Chair at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter, he is the author of several books about the musical theater, including the companion volume to the PBS series Broadway: The American Musical as well as the editor of the Library of Americas two-volume set American Musicals (1927-1969), containing sixteen classic Broadway librettos.
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: HOUSE SEAT Music and the private space of Broadway CHAPTER 1. TURN OVER FOR ACT TWO Content and the context of Broadway CHAPTER 2. THE JEWISH POPULATION OF TENNESSEE Sheet music and the imprimatur of Broadway CHAPTER 3. FACE THE MUSIC (AND DANCE) The gramophone and the voice of Broadway CHAPTER 4. THE MAJESTIC THEATER OF THE AIR Radio and the personality of Broadway CHAPTER 5: THE FARMER AND THE COWMAN SHOULD BE FRIENDS: Albums sets and the narrative of Broadway CHAPTER 6. EVERY HOME'S A FIRST NIGHT The Long-Playing record and the commodity of Broadway CHAPTER 7. SONGS FOR SWINGIN' SHOW FANS Hit singles and the catalogue of Broadway CHAPTER 8. "AND MY FAIR LADY IS A TERRIFIC SHOW," THEY SAY The record producer and the blockbuster of Broadway CHAPTER 9. HYMN TO A SUNDAY EVENING Television and the mythology of Broadway CHAPTER 10. A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS Movie stars and the soundtrack of Broadway CHAPTER 11. WAS THERE TOO MUCH OF A CROWD, ALL TOO LUSH AND LOUD? Pop singles and the adult contemporaneity of Broadway CHAPTER 12. LOSING MY TIMING THIS LATE IN MY CAREER The rock scene and the margin road of Broadway CHAPTER 13. YOU NEVER SEEN A SHOW LIKE THIS BEFORE Compact discs and the digitalization of Broadway CHAPTER 14. HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU The Internet and the mixtape of Broadway Endnotes Bibliography Index
CONTENTS Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: HOUSE SEAT Music and the private space of Broadway CHAPTER 1. TURN OVER FOR ACT TWO Content and the context of Broadway CHAPTER 2. THE JEWISH POPULATION OF TENNESSEE Sheet music and the imprimatur of Broadway CHAPTER 3. FACE THE MUSIC (AND DANCE) The gramophone and the voice of Broadway CHAPTER 4. THE MAJESTIC THEATER OF THE AIR Radio and the personality of Broadway CHAPTER 5: THE FARMER AND THE COWMAN SHOULD BE FRIENDS: Albums sets and the narrative of Broadway CHAPTER 6. EVERY HOME'S A FIRST NIGHT The Long-Playing record and the commodity of Broadway CHAPTER 7. SONGS FOR SWINGIN' SHOW FANS Hit singles and the catalogue of Broadway CHAPTER 8. "AND MY FAIR LADY IS A TERRIFIC SHOW," THEY SAY The record producer and the blockbuster of Broadway CHAPTER 9. HYMN TO A SUNDAY EVENING Television and the mythology of Broadway CHAPTER 10. A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS Movie stars and the soundtrack of Broadway CHAPTER 11. WAS THERE TOO MUCH OF A CROWD, ALL TOO LUSH AND LOUD? Pop singles and the adult contemporaneity of Broadway CHAPTER 12. LOSING MY TIMING THIS LATE IN MY CAREER The rock scene and the margin road of Broadway CHAPTER 13. YOU NEVER SEEN A SHOW LIKE THIS BEFORE Compact discs and the digitalization of Broadway CHAPTER 14. HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU The Internet and the mixtape of Broadway Endnotes Bibliography Index
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