John Durang

John Durang
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
Total Pages: 385
Release:
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ISBN: 1621968936

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage
Author: Ray Miller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-05-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000876020

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk, and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book, a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture, and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself, played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage. This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Musical Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dance, and Cultural History.

Rogue Performances

Rogue Performances
Author: P. Reed
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-06-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230622712

Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.

The Theatre of Empire

The Theatre of Empire
Author: Douglas S Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317324048

Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.

American Musical Life in Context and Practice to 1865

American Musical Life in Context and Practice to 1865
Author: James R. Heintze
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 042977334X

First published in 1994. This study covers a wide cross-section of topics, individuals, groups, and musical practices representing various regions and cities. The subjects discussed reflect the religious, ethnic, and social plurality of the American musical experience as well as the impact on cultural society provided by the arrival of new musical immigrants and the internal movements of musicians and musical practices. The essays are arranged principally on the basis of the historical chronology of the cultural practices and subjects discussed. Each article helps to shed additional light on cultural expressions through music in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.

Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 4338
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429761805

This set of 11 volumes, originally published between 1946 and 2001, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, including studies on photography, theatre, opera, and music. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of art and cultural history.

Imitation as Resistance

Imitation as Resistance
Author: Raoul Granqvist
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838636398

Imitation as Resistance also offers American perspectives on the individual reputations of a number of British writers and their specific works, often down to the particular lines in plays and poems. The reader whose interest is limited, for example, to the singular reputation of a Dickens novel or a Byron poem may find the book functional for its broad bibliographical qualities. For cultural studies students, Americanists, and others, the book will demonstrate the complexity of cultural appropriation and the patterns of nineteenth-century American resistance and harmonization.