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"In search of the Great American Opera" : Tendenzen des amerikanischen Musiktheaters

Title
"In search of the Great American Opera" : Tendenzen des amerikanischen Musiktheaters / Frederic Döhl, Gregor Herzfeld (Hrsg.).
Publication
Münster ; New York : Waxmann, 2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Döhl, Frédéric
  • Herzfeld, Gregor
Description
236 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
Series Statement
Populäre Kultur und Musik, 1869-8417 ; Band 17
Uniform Title
Populäre Kultur und Musik ; Bd. 17.
Subject
  • Musicals > United States > History and criticism
  • Opera > United States
  • Musicals
  • Opera
  • United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Größe als Erhabenheit : einführende Gedanken zu Bernard Herrmann / Gregor Herzfeld -- Crafting the soundworld of American opera, 1910-1912 / Aaron Ziegel --"Recognizably American" : Aaron Coplands The Second Hurricane (1936/37) als musikalische Theatralisierung des Politischen im New Deal / Marcus Gräser -- Operatic conventions on Broadway, 1935-1960 / Christopher Lynch -- Toward an American folk opera : performing primitivism and Negro folk culture in Hall Johnson's Run, Little Chillun! (1933) / Micah Wittmer -- Oper als Strategie der kompositorischen Selbstinszenierung und Wertbegriff : Street Scene (1946) und West Side Story (1957) / Nils Grosch -- The Sound of Music (1959) : "A Great American Opera"? / Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild -- Glass avec Fukuyama, oder, Philip Glass' The Voyage (1992) und das Ende der Geschichte / Mauro Fosco Bertola -- About the task of adapting a movie classic for the opera stage : on André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire (1998) and Brief Encounter (2009) / Frédéric Döhl -- Sense and sensibility : music on stage in What Next? / John Link -- Libby Larsen's Barnum's Bird : the "Great American Opera" / Sharon Mirchandani -- "The Mysteries of Selma, Alabama" : re-telling and remembrance in David Lang's The Difficulty of Crossing a Field / Amy Bauer.
Call Number
JNE 16-131
ISBN
  • 9783830931249
  • 3830931247
LCCN
9783830931249
OCLC
953712104
Title
"In search of the Great American Opera" : Tendenzen des amerikanischen Musiktheaters / Frederic Döhl, Gregor Herzfeld (Hrsg.).
Publisher
Münster ; New York : Waxmann, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Populäre Kultur und Musik, 1869-8417 ; Band 17
Populäre Kultur und Musik ; Bd. 17.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Döhl, Frédéric, editor.
Herzfeld, Gregor, editor.
Other Form:
9783830981244 (online)
(GyWOH)har160386848
Other Standard Identifier
9783830931249
Research Call Number
JNE 16-131
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