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Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the earlyâtwentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that became uniquely American. It concludes with an examination of current musical trends and practices on Broadway.
As a musician who works on Broadway and in developmental musical theater, Kat Sherrell draws on her knowledge both as a historian of Broadway musical form and as a professional Broadway musician to offer an insider's perspective on the development and execution of the past and present Broadway scores. Despite its enormous breadth, and given the historical significance of the musical in modern popular culture, Experiencing Broadway Music provides listenersâwhether they know musical theater well or not at allâwith the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the past century.
As a musician who works on Broadway and in developmental musical theater, Kat Sherrell draws on her knowledge both as a historian of Broadway musical form and as a professional Broadway musician to offer an insider's perspective on the development and execution of the past and present Broadway scores. Despite its enormous breadth, and given the historical significance of the musical in modern popular culture, Experiencing Broadway Music provides listenersâwhether they know musical theater well or not at allâwith the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the past century.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Series Editorâs Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Introduction
- A Great Big Broadway Show
- The Roots of American Musical Theater
- The Beginnings of Integration
- The Great Depression and the Great American Songbook
- A Golden Age of Broadway
- Rock on Broadway
- Concept Musicals
- Megamusicals
- Musicals for the MTV Generation
- Diversity and Integration
- Glossary
- Selected Reading
- Selected Listening
- Index
- About the Author