The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies (Oxford Handbooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190258195 ISBN 13: 9780190258191

Verlag: OUP USA, 2015

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Críticas:

"You'll be glad you did all those bicep curls when you pick up The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies...fascinating, revealing, provocative."--The Bay Area Reporter "You'll be glad you did all those bicep curls when you pick up The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies...fascinating, revealing, provocative."--The Bay Area Reporter "Robert Gordon, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies, suggests in his introduction that Sondheim's work straddles two theatrical periods, and indeed was the catalyst for the second, ushering it in with Company in 1970, and Follies the following year." --Judith Flanders, The Times Literary Supplement

Reseña del editor:

The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling topics in the growing field of Sondheim Studies. Focusing on broad groups of issues relating to the music and the production of Sondheim works, rather than on biographical questions about the composer himself, the handbook represents a cross-disciplinary introduction to comprehending Sondheim in musicological, theatrical, and socio-cultural terms.

This collection of never-before published essays addresses issues of artistic method and musico-dramaturgical form, while at the same time offering close readings of individual shows from a variety of analytical perspectives. The handbook is arranged into six broad sections: issues of intertextuality and authorship; Sondheim's pioneering work in developing the non-linear form of the concept musical; the production history of Sondheim's work; his writing for film and television; his exploitation and deployment of a wide range of musical genres; and how interpretation through key critical lenses (including sociology, history, and feminist and queer theory) establishes his position in a broader cultural context.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0190258195
• ISBN 13: 9780190258191
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 516
• Herausgeber: Gordon Robert