Approaches To The American Musical

Contents

• Copyright Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction. Cultural Musicology and the American Musical, Robert Lawson-Peebles
• 2. From Butterfly to Saigon - Europe, America and "Success", Wilfrid Mellers
• 3. There's No Business like Show Business - a Speculative Reading of the Broadway Musical, Carey Wall
• 4. From Gold Diggers to Bar Girls - a Selective History of the American Movie Musical, Ralph Willett
• 5. Holy Yumpin' Yiminy Scandinavian Immigrant Stereotypes in Early 20th Century American Musical, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey
• 6. Movies in Disguise - Negotiating Censorship and Patriarchy Through the Dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Sue Rickard
• 7. Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Robert Lawson-Peebles
• 8. Who Loves You Porgy? The Debates Surrounding Gershwin's Musical, David Horn
• 9. "West Side Story" Revisited, Wilfrid Mellers
• 10. Sondheim and the Art that has No Name, Stephen Banfield
• Index