Music in German immigrant theater
Subtitle: New York City, 1840-1940
By: John Koegel.
Series: Eastman studies in music -- v. 62
Publisher: Rochester, NY
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University of Rochester Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 593
ISBN-13: 9781580462150
Subjects: Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism; German Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Musical theater in Little Germany, 1840-1918 : an imported European tradition. Early struggles, operatic beginnings, and the development of the German theater in New York City, 1840-1872 ; Musical farce and folk play at the Germania Theater, 1872-1883 ; Ethnic spaces : theatrical entertainments in German beer gardens and concert halls ; An orgy of operetta : the Thalia and Amberg theaters, 1879-1893 ; Drama on a higher plane : the Irving Place Theater, 1893-1918; title: Entr'acte : German American performers and characterizations. German American performers ; The "Dutch" act : German American theatrical and literary representations; title: Adolf Philipp and the German American immigrant musical. Philipp's Germania Theater musical comedies, 1893-1902 ; The German American musical abroad : Philipp in Berlin, 1903-1907 ; From klein Deutschland to Broadway : Philipp's works, 1907-1914 ; Divided loyalties : World War I and its aftermath.