Identities and Audiences in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3 (Oxford Handbooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190877790 ISBN 13: 9780190877798

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, chapters focus on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, regional vs. national identity, and the cultural and class significance of the musical itself. As important as the question of who appears in musicals are the questions of who watches and listens to them, and of how specific cultures of reception attend differently to the musical. Chapters thus address cultural codes inherent to the genre, in particular those found in traditional school theater programs.

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mitchell Morris is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190877790
• ISBN 13: 9780190877798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Knapp Raymond