Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2014
Series: Book 8 of 18 - Broadway Legacies
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- Hardcover
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Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.Blue Skye Books
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NYC: Oxford University POress, 2014. 1st edition, NF/NF. Book has some light wear to spine ends & corners. DJ has light wear to edges. Illustrated with b & w photos and musical notations. Includes appendix of select discography and videography, notes, select bibliography and index. Deals with his years when he developed his two earlist productions: Fancy Free and Ont he Town. The rest was history. I especially remember his Sunday "Concerts for Young People". Nice copy, 399 pp. BP.
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- Title
- Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War
- Author
- Oja, Carol J.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199862095
- ISBN 13
- 9780199862092
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 8 of 18: Broadway Legacies
In Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War, award-winning author Carol J. Oja explores a youthful Bernstein-a twenty-something composer who was emerging in New York City during World War II. Devising an innovative framework, Oja constructs a wide-ranging cultural history that illuminates how Bernstein and his friends violated artistic and political boundaries to produce imaginative artistic results. At the core of her story are the Broadway musical On the Town, the ballet Fancy Free, and a nightclub act called The Revuers. A brilliant group of collaborators joins Bernstein at center-stage, including the choreographer Jerome Robbins and the writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green. With the zeal of youth, they infused their art with progressive political ideals. On the Town focused on sailors enjoying a day of shore leave, and it featured a mixed-race cast, contributing an important chapter to the desegregation of American performance. It projected an equitable inter-racial vision in an era when racial segregation was being enforced contentiously in the U.S. military. The show starred the dancer Sono Osato, even as her father was interned together with so many Japanese Americans. Fancy Free amiably encoded its own dissenting narratives. Based on a controversial painting by Paul Cadmus, it grew out of a complex web of gay relationships.
Rather than chronicling art within like-minded categories, Oja instead explores cross-fertilizations across art forms and high-low divides. She draws on intensive archival research, FBI files, interviews with surviving cast members, and previously untapped criticism in African American newspapers and entertainment-trade journals to shape a compelling story of artistic crossover and wartime exigencies.
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