Sean Griffin: Free and Easy? | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781405194952 | Free and Easy? | A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre

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Free and Easy examines the evolution of how the film musical genre has come to be defined: what gets counted as a musical, why, and who gets to make that decision. Surveying centuries of music history from the music and dance of Native Americans to contemporary music performance in streaming media, including the growth of American musical theater, music publishing, and the music recording industry, Free and Easy examines how social factors helped invent and shape the musical, and the genre's ongoing balance between celebrating individual freedom and reaffirming the joys of community. Expanding beyond the glory days of MGM and the classical Hollywood musical or the blockbuster Broadway adaptation to sound experiments, short subjects and cartoons, foreign-language films, "race movies," documentaries, and contemporary independent cinema, this history questions exactly how "free and easy" it is to determine what is and what is not a musical.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 Overture: Musical Traditions before Cinema 11

2 You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: The Sound Revolution 35

3 Face the Music and Dance: The Depression 67

4 Singing a Song of Freedom: World War II 97

5 There's Beauty Everywhere: MGM and the Freed Unit 125

6 Something's Gotta Give: The Postwar Musical 147

7 Bustin' Out All Over: The Rise of the Musical Blockbuster 175

8 In a Minor Key: The B Musical and Beyond 197

9 The Sound of Money: Musicals in the 1960s 225

10 Whistling in the Dark: A Genre in Crisis 251

11 Can't Stop the Music: Musicals and the New Hollywood 279

12 Just Like Scheherezade: Reviving the Musical Film Genre 307

Index 335

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Fotografie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	376 S.
ISBN-13:	9781405194952
ISBN-10:	1405194952
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Griffin, Sean
Auflage:	1/2017
Hersteller:	Wiley-VCH GmbH
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße:	223 x 155 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Sean Griffin
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.07.2017
Gewicht:	0,54 kg

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