Music Theater as Global Culture
Author | : Anno Mungen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783826054303 |
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Author | : Anno Mungen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783826054303 |
Author | : Diana Crane |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134955170 |
Culture no longer has borders. With the advent of internet sites like Sothebys.com and the increasing reality of globalization, culture itself has gone global. This collection focuses on questions involving national identity, indigenous culture, economic growth, free trade, cultural policy, and global tourism. Global Culture looks at all aspects of the arts including: film, art, music, theater, television, and museums. Global Culture fleshes out how current cultural policies are working and forecasts what we can expect the future landscape of global culture to look like.
Author | : David Walsh |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2003-10-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Though there have been many histories of the theater and specifically the theatrical musical, none has done quite what Musical Theater and American Culture achieves: it explores how the musical emerged in the late-18th and 19th centuries as a specifically American form of entertainment and went on to become a powerful medium of popular and political collective expression, articulating the tensions and reconciliations of everyday relations between individuals and society. Intimately related to the forging of social, cultural, and political American identities, the musical—often dismissed as merely entertainment—is tied inextricably to America's sense of itself as a New World, a land of opportunity, and above all, the emblem of modern culture. Including material on genres ranging from minstrel shows to melodrama to the development of the contemporary book musical and the megamusical, Musical Theater and American Culture delves into such important shows as Anything Goes, West Side Story, Evita, and Rent; it represents the first sustained analysis of this medium as a social and political vehicle. Authors David F. Walsh and Len Platt further consider how the current condition of the musical, the emergence of specialist musicals, revivals, and blockbuster musicals intended for a globalized audience relate both aesthetically and culturally to their Broadway progenitors. Tackling the much broader question of what the fragmentation of this popular culture now indicates about contemporary America, they forge a new and unique study sure to appeal to both scholars of the theater and fans of its ongoing and always -fascinating new forms.
Author | : Robert Gordon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1001 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190909749 |
The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own musical theatre industries, not only by importing hit shows from Broadway and London but also by establishing or reviving local traditions of musical theatre. In response to the rapid growth of musical theatre as a global phenomenon, The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical presents new scholarly approaches to issues arising from these new international markets. The volume examines the stage musical from theoretical and empirical perspectives including concepts of globalization and consumer culture, performance and musicological analysis, historical and cultural studies, media studies, notions of interculturalism and hybridity, gender studies, and international politics. The thirty-three essays investigate major aspects of the global musical, such as the dominance of Western colonialism in its early production and dissemination, racism and sexism--both in representation and in the industry itself--as well as current conflicts between global and local interests in postmodern cultures. Featuring contributors from seventeen countries, the essays offer informed insider perspectives that reflect the diversity of the subject and offer in-depth examinations of specific cultural and economic systems. Together, they conduct penetrating comparative analysis of musical theatre in different contexts as well as a survey of the transcultural spread of musicals.
Author | : Annegret Fauser |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226239284 |
Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the “capital of the nineteenth century.” The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city’s musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters or repertories. Their broad range enables their collective examination of the ways in which all aspects of performance and reception were affected by the transfer of works, performers, and management models from one environment to another. By focusing on this interplay between institutions and individuals, the authors illuminate the tension between institutional conventions and artistic creation during the heady period when Parisian stage music reached its zenith.
Author | : Peter Fletcher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0195175077 |
"This volume contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. It begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in relation to the early developments of civilizations, as background to a study of later transformations. It then describes, in some detail, musical traditions of Africa and Asia, in relation to history/geography and to other aspects of culture. A compendium of information currently available as well as a dialectical examination of musical causation and function, this book aims to lead students, teachers, and those who practice Western music towards a deeper understanding of the various musical traditions that contribute to the modern, multicultural environment."--Publisher's description
Author | : Robert Gordon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1001 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190909730 |
The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own musical theatre industries, not only by importing hit shows from Broadway and London but also by establishing or reviving local traditions of musical theatre. In response to the rapid growth of musical theatre as a global phenomenon, The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical presents new scholarly approaches to issues arising from these new international markets. The volume examines the stage musical from theoretical and empirical perspectives including concepts of globalization and consumer culture, performance and musicological analysis, historical and cultural studies, media studies, notions of interculturalism and hybridity, gender studies, and international politics. The thirty-three essays investigate major aspects of the global musical, such as the dominance of Western colonialism in its early production and dissemination, racism and sexism--both in representation and in the industry itself--as well as current conflicts between global and local interests in postmodern cultures. Featuring contributors from seventeen countries, the essays offer informed insider perspectives that reflect the diversity of the subject and offer in-depth examinations of specific cultural and economic systems. Together, they conduct penetrating comparative analysis of musical theatre in different contexts as well as a survey of the transcultural spread of musicals.
Author | : Michael Creighton Moench |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Musical theater has been described as one of the most distinctive and enduring American contributions to world culture. Its history, its compositions, its prominent creators and stage works, and its complex of various performance practices have been extensively studied by scholars in many disciplines. Most of the analysis of it, however, has been concerned with the most famous, expensive and nationally recognized manifestations of it. This dissertation is intended to broaden our understanding of musical theater by providing an on-the-ground view of it as it is performed and consumed at the community and semi-professional level in a geographic and cultural context outside of the most heavily discussed and visible centers of its creation, i.e., Broadway and Hollywood. It is rooted in several years of experience as a performer and a fan of local productions in central Texas, examining the effect that participating in musical theater has on the lives of those who make it, the complicated meanings that certain shows have for those who both perform and receive them, and the varied approaches to the task of producing original shows in a scene where musical theater is a somewhat neglected part of the local artistic identity. Ultimately, I argue that musical theater is uniquely illustrative of the role music and the performing arts play in socialization, individual wellbeing and in the tangled relationship between communal, aesthetic and economic values
Author | : meLê yamomo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-07-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3319691767 |
This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states. Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern cultural consumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.
Author | : Christina Ballico |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2020-06-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030358720 |
This book provides a critical academic evaluation of the ‘music city’ as a form of urban cultural policy that has been keenly adopted in policy circles across the globe, but which as yet has only been subject to limited empirical and conceptual interrogation. With a particular focus on heritage, planning, tourism and regulatory measures, this book explores how local geographical, social and economic contexts and particularities shape the nature of music city policies (or lack thereof) in particular cities. The book broadens academic interrogation of music cities to include cities as diverse as San Francisco, Liverpool, Chennai, Havana, San Juan, Birmingham and Southampton. Contributors include both academic and professional practitioners and, consequently, this book represents one of the most diverse attempts yet to critically engage with music cities as a global cultural policy concept.