Singing and dancing to The Book of Mormon
Subtitle: critical essays on the Broadway musical
By: edited by Marc Edward Shaw, Holly Welker
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781442266766
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Analysis, appreciation; Musicals; Mormons in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: "This book will change your life" : how understanding The Book of Mormon makes the peculiar possible  -- Holly Welker and Marc Edward Shaw; title: The genesis of The Book of Mormon.; title: Good intentions and (un)acceptable laughter : how the carnival inverts cross-cultural relationships in The Book of Mormon  -- Stephanie Lim; title: The Book of Mormon musical and the Cumorah experience  -- Gerald S. Argetsinger; title: "A Mormon just believes" : and so do lots of other people -- Ryan T. Cragun; title: Theology, ethics, and creativity in The Book of Mormon.; title: Reinhold Niebuhr and religious foolishness : "A Mormon just believes"  -- Roberto Sirvent and Neil Baker; title: Faith in fiction : creative practice and the persistence of doubt -- Jenn Ashworh; title: Open spaces and middle ground in The Book of Mormon.; title: Believing part-way : The Book of Mormon and postsecular America  -- Wade Newhouse; title: Negative capability in The Book of Mormon musical -- Marc Edward Shaw; title: Identity in The Book of Mormon.; title: From "Sal tlay ka siti" to "I am Africa" : parody, politics, and musical representations of cultural and national identity in The book of Mormon  -- Sam O'Connell; title: The Book of Mormon's African fantasies  -- Gibson Alessandro Cima; title: The book of Nabulungi : stand next to him and watch (or, mostly him ) -- Holly Welker.