Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion

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Chapter 1 : A Great Big Broadway Show: Wicked
Chapter 2 : The Roots of American Musical Theater: The Great Ziegfeld
Chapter 3 : The Beginnings of Integration: Very Good Eddie, Shuffle Along, and Show Boat
Chapter 4 : The Great Depression and The Great American Songbook: Anything Goes and Porgy & Bess
Chapter 5 : A Golden Age of Broadway: Rodgers and Hammerstein
Chapter 6 : Rock on Broadway: Hair
Chapter 7 : Concept Musicals: Sondheim: The Birthday Concert and A Chorus Line
Chapter 8 : Mega-Musicals: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Gold Album and Les Miserables
Chapter 9 : Musicals for the MTV Generation: Rent and Spring Awakening
Chapter 10 : Diversity and Integration: Hamilton

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Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener’s Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early–twentieth-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 listeners—whether they know musical theater well or not at all—with 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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Who should buy this book? The casual musical goers who want to understand the genre's rules and tricks, the more committed actors or producers who want to add depth to their involvement in theater, and the educators who want a thorough , well-organized guide that introduces Broadway with the expertise of an insider

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