Title: American musical theatre :
Authors: Bordman, Gerald Martin
Date: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: viii, 787 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Chapter 1-Prologue: Origins to 1866 -- Chapter 2-Act One: Early successes -- Scene One: Opera Bouffe and Native elements, 1866-1878 -- Scene Two: H.M.S. Pinafore and the Great Transformation, 1878-1892 -- Chapter 3-Intermission: Further British Influences and New Stirrings, 1892-1902 -- Chapter 4-Act Two: The Emergence of American Talent, 1902-1907 -- Chapter 5-Intermission: Viennese Operetta and the American Retreat, 1907-1914 -- Act Three: the Birth of the Modern Musical, 1914-1921 -- Intermission: The Cinderella Era, 1921-1924 -- At Four: The Golden Age of the American Musical, 1924-1937 -- Scene One: Songwriters' Shows as Pure Entertainment, 1924-1929 -- Scene Two: Depression and "Talkies" -- Broadway's Answer, 1929-1937 -- Intermission: Broadway's Response to the Swing Era -- Chapter 10- Act Five: The American Musical as a Conscious Art Form -- Scene One: Americana amid a New Seriousness, 1942-1951 -- Scene Two: Increasing Problems -- Lowering Standards, 1951-1965 -- Epilogue: Exhaustion and the Search for New Directions, 1965-1985 -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Index-Shows and Sources -- Songs -- People.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Musicals--United States--History and criticism; Revues--United States--History and criticism.