Experiencing Broadway music
Subtitle: a listener's companion
By: Kat Sherrell
Series: The listener's companion; Listener's companion
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780810889002
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Music appreciation; Analysis, appreciation; History and criticism; Musicals; History
Description: Provides listeners--whether they know musical theater well or not at all--with the tools and background necessary to grasp or gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the last century.
Notes: "Timeline": pages xiii-xvii; "Glossary": pages 209-216.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219), discography (page 221-223), videography (page 223), and index.
Table of contents: title: A great big Broadway show : Wicked; title: The roots of American musical theater : The great Ziegfeld; title: The beginnings of integration : Very good Eddie, Shuffle along and Show boat; title: The great depression and the American songbook : Anything goes and Porgy and Bess; title: A golden age of Broadway : Rodgers and Hammerstein; title: Rock on Broadway : Hair; title: Concept musicals : Sondheim! The birthday concert and A chorus line; title: Megamusicals : Andrew Llloyd Webber: Gold album and Les misérables; title: Musicals for the MTV generation : Rent and Spring awakening; title: Diversity and integration : Hamilton.