Author : John Durang
Publisher : [Pittsburgh] Published for the Historical Society of York County and for the American Society for Theatre Research by the University of Pittsburgh Press [1966]
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Actor
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Author : John Durang
Publisher : [Pittsburgh] Published for the Historical Society of York County and for the American Society for Theatre Research by the University of Pittsburgh Press [1966]
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Actor
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
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ISBN : 1621968936
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000876020
Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk, and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book, a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture, and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself, played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage. This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Musical Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dance, and Cultural History.
Author : P. Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230622712
Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.
Author : Douglas S Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317324048
Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.
Author : James R. Heintze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 042977334X
First published in 1994. This study covers a wide cross-section of topics, individuals, groups, and musical practices representing various regions and cities. The subjects discussed reflect the religious, ethnic, and social plurality of the American musical experience as well as the impact on cultural society provided by the arrival of new musical immigrants and the internal movements of musicians and musical practices. The essays are arranged principally on the basis of the historical chronology of the cultural practices and subjects discussed. Each article helps to shed additional light on cultural expressions through music in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4338 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0429761805
This set of 11 volumes, originally published between 1946 and 2001, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, including studies on photography, theatre, opera, and music. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of art and cultural history.
Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838636398
Imitation as Resistance also offers American perspectives on the individual reputations of a number of British writers and their specific works, often down to the particular lines in plays and poems. The reader whose interest is limited, for example, to the singular reputation of a Dickens novel or a Byron poem may find the book functional for its broad bibliographical qualities. For cultural studies students, Americanists, and others, the book will demonstrate the complexity of cultural appropriation and the patterns of nineteenth-century American resistance and harmonization.
