The Musical Human 9781526602749, 9781526602770

Musical Meaning and Human Values 9780823230099, 0823230090

Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical

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Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film 9780822384106

The history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics.

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The Hollywood Musical 0253213002, 9780253213006

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The Movie Musical! 1101874066, 9781101874066

Irresistible and authoritative,The Movie Musical!is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Holl

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The International Film Musical 9780748634781

This is a comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is o

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Musical Scales of the World

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Identities and Audiences in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical 9780190877811, 9780190877798, 0190877812

Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or w

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Histories of the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical 9780190877781, 9780190877767, 0190877782

The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the wor

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Media and Performance in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical 9780190877842, 9780190877828, 0190877847

For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and s

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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature [Paperback ed.] 0241987814, 9780241987810

Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six

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