Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin (eBook, PDF)

1890 to 1939
Redaktion: Platt, Len

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 revues and operettas to dance halls and cabaret. Bringing together contributors from Britain and Germany, this collection moves beyond national theatre histories to study Anglo-German relations at a period of intense hostility and rivalry. Chapters frame the entertainment zones of London and Berlin against the wider trading routes of cultural transfer, where empire and transatlantic song and dance produced, perhaps for the first time, a genuinely international culture. Exploring adaptations and translations of works under the influence of political propaganda, this collection will be of interest both to musical theatre enthusiasts and to those interested in the wider history of modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316056783
• Artikelnr.: 41502647

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Len Platt, Tobias Becker and David Linton; Part I. The
Mechanics of Transfer and Translation: 1. Berlin/London: London/Berlin: an
outline of cultural transfer, 1890¿1914 Len Platt; 2. Local contexts and
genre construction in early continental musical theatre Marion Linhardt; 3.
German operetta in the West End and on Broadway Derek B. Scott; 4. The
Arcadians and Filmzauber: adaptation and the popular musical theatre text
Tobias Becker; 5. How a sweet Viennese girl became a fair international
lady: transfer, performance, modernity Stefan Frey; 6. 'A happy man can
live in the past': musical theatre transfer in the 1920s and 1930s Len
Platt and Tobias Becker; Part II. Atlantic Traffic: 7. Hullo Ragtime! West
End revue and the Americanisation of popular culture in pre-1914 Britain
Peter Bailey; 8. The Argentine tango: a transatlantic dance on the European
Stage Kerstin Lange; 9. Dover Street to Dixie and the politics of cultural
transfer and exchange David Linton and Len Platt; 10. The transculturality
of stage, song and other media: intermediality in popular musical theatre
Carolin Stahrenberg and Nils Grosch; Part III. Representation in
Transition: Stage Others: 11. The Sandow Girl and her sisters: the
construction and performance of the healthy female body in fin de siècle
musical comedy Viv Gardner; 12. West End musical theatre and the
representation of Germany Len Platt; 13. The Tropical Express: an exotic
non-stop revue in Nazi Germany Susann Lewrenz; 14. Operetta and propaganda:
the politicisation of popular musical theatre in the Third Reich Matthias
Kauffmann.