A tanner's worth of tune
Subtitle: rediscovering the post-war British musical
By: Adrian Wright
Publisher: Boydell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Woodbridge; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781843835424
Description: This book is not an encyclopaedia of the British musical in the twentieth century, but an examination of its progress as it struggled to find an identity. It shows how the British musical has reacted to social and cultural forces, suggesting that some of its leading composers such as Lionel Bart and Julian Slade contributed much more to the genre than has previously been acknowledged. As the British musical veered between opera, light opera, operetta, spectacle with music, kitchen-sink musical, recherché musical, adaptations of classic novels, socially conscious musicals et al., this fresh assessment of the writers and their work offers a new understanding of the art -- publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.