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Title:
Great American music [sound recording] : Broadway musicals / Professor Bill Messenger.
ISBN:
9781490678917
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, 2006.
©2006
Physical Description:
16 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM.
General Note:
"Great courses. Fine arts & music. Music appreciation."
Course no. 7318.
The length of each lecture is: ca. 45 min. The entire program consists of 16 lectures.
Bonus disc contains course workbook in PDF format.
Compact discs.
Contents:
The essence of the musical -- The minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) --Evolution of the verse/chorus song -- The ragtime years (c. 1890-1917) -- The vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) -- Tin Pan Alley -- Broadway in its infancy -- The revue versus the book musical -- Superstars on the horizon -- Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) -- Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, contrasts -- George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) -- Rogers and Hammerstein era (1940s) -- Golden age of musical theater (1950s) -- Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) -- Big bucks and long runs (1970s-present).
Summary:
Professor Messenger of Johns Hopkins University delivers lectures on the history of musicals and Broadway.
Genre:
Performer:
Lecturer: Professor Bill Messenger.
OCLC Number:
ocn911402077
Availability:
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