Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin: 1890 to 1939

Contents

• Introduction Len Platt, Tobias Becker and David Linton;
• Part I . The Mechanics of Transfer and Translation:
• 1. Berlin/London: London/Berlin: an outline of cultural transfer, 1890-1914 Len Platt;
• 2. Local contexts and genre construction in early continental musical theatre Marion Linhardt;
• 3. German operetta in the West End and on Broadway Derek B. Scott;
• 4. The Arcadians and Filmzauber: adaptation and the popular musical theatre text Tobias Becker;
• 5. How a sweet Viennese girl became a fair international lady: transfer, performance, modernity Stefan Frey;
• 6. 'A happy man can live in the past': musical theatre transfer in the 1920s and 1930s Len Platt and Tobias Becker;
• Part II . Atlantic Traffic:
• 7. Hullo Ragtime! West End revue and the Americanisation of popular culture in pre-1914 Britain Peter Bailey;
• 8. The Argentine tango: a transatlantic dance on the European Stage Kerstin Lange;
• 9. Dover Street to Dixie and the politics of cultural transfer and exchange David Linton and Len Platt;
• 10. The transculturality of stage, song and other media: intermediality in popular musical theatre Carolin Stahrenberg and Nils Grosch;
• Part III . Representation in Transition: Stage Others:
• 11. The Sandow Girl and her sisters: the construction and performance of the healthy female body in fin de siecle musical comedy Viv Gardner;
• 12. West End musical theatre and the representation of Germany Len Platt;
• 13. The Tropical Express: an exotic non-stop revue in Nazi Germany Susann Lewrenz;
• 14. Operetta and propaganda: the politicisation of popular musical theatre in the Third Reich Matthias Kauffmann.