American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity, Paperback by Knapp...

Description: American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity, Paperback by Knapp, Raymond, ISBN 0691141053, ISBN-13 9780691141053, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project.


This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals.


Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz.


Complementing the authors earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike.

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Book Title: American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity

Number of Pages: 480 Pages

Publication Name: American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Item Height: 1.3 in

Publication Year: 2009

Subject: Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Genres & Styles / Musicals, Film / General, History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ethnopsychology

Item Weight: 17 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9.1 in

Author: Raymond Knapp

Subject Area: Music, Performing Arts, Psychology

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback