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The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey / Edition 2

Current price: $78.00
The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey / Edition 2
The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey / Edition 2

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The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey / Edition 2

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This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of music in twenty impressive productions. Included is the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary critics, highlighting the various styles of important composers including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. This new edition also includes a previously unpublished essay on
Les Misérables
. An expanded epilogue offers insight into the phenomena behind
Miss Saigon
and
Phantom of the Opera
, "megamusicals" which seemingly popularized the Broadway tradition. For people interested in Broadway musicals, theater, popular music, American music, opera and/or twentieth-century music.

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