Approaches To The American Musical (Exeter Studies in American and Commonwealth Arts) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859894053 ISBN 13: 9780859894050

Verlag: University of Exeter Press, 1996

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Páginas:176Géneros:12:JHMC:Social&culturalanthropology,ethnography12:0:0Sinopsis:MostbooksontheAmericanmusicalarelittlemorethanexercisesinnostalgia.ThespeciallycommissionedessaysthatmakeupApproachestotheAmericanMusicaltakeadifferentviewoftheform,goingbeyondthecommonassertionthatmusicalsaresimplyescapist._,

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Reseña del editor:

Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form, going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist.

Biografía del autor:

Robert Lawson-Peebles is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Exeter. His research field is transatlantic cultural relations, from pre-Columbian times until the present. He has published three books including American environmental history: a monograph, Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America (1988), and two collections of original essays co-edited with Professor Mick Gidley (now of Leeds University), Downloads of American Landscapes (1989) and Modern American Landscapes (1995). He has also published essays on, amongst others, George Washington, Susannah Rowson, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry George, and William Carlos Williams. His interests include American performance arts, and he has published an introductory essay on the subject, an article on the impact of the Second World War on Hollywood versions of English novels, and an edited collection of original essays, Approaches to the American Musical (1996). He is currently working on an account of the impact of American culture on Britain between 1900 and 1968.

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• Verlag: University of Exeter Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0859894053
• ISBN 13: 9780859894050
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Herausgeber: Lawson-Peebles Robert