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- ISBN 9781350293755
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic ‘histories’, Millie Taylor and Adam Rush take readers on a series of journeys that include the art form’s European and American origins, African American influences, negotiations arounddiversity, national identity, and the globalisation of the form, as well as revival culture, censorship and the place of social media in
the 21st century.
Each chapter includes case studies and key concept boxes to identify, explain and contextualise important discussions, offering an accessible study of a dynamic and ever evolving medium.
Written and developed for undergraduate students, this introductory textbook provides a newly focused and alternative way of understanding musical theatre history.
Millie Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK, and Endowed Professor of the Musical at the University of Amsterdam. She has published books and articles on British pantomime, musical theatre and theatre music.
Adam Rush is Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester, UK. His research has been published in Studies in Musical Theatre and in several edited collections.
