Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of the British musical / edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gordon, Robert, 1951 November 28-
• Jubin, Olaf

Description

xviii, 754 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

[Oxford handbooks]

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Subject

• Musicals > Great Britain > History and criticism
• Musicals
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ballad opera : commercial song in enlightenment garb / Berta Joncus -- Between opera and musical : theatre music in early nineteenth-century London / Christine Furhmann -- Comic opera : English society in Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Wiliams -- English musical comedy, 1890-1924 / Stephen Banfield -- English West End revue : the First World War and after / David Linton -- Musical comedy in the 1920s and 1930s : Mister Cinders and Me and my girl as class-conscious carnival / George Burrows -- West End royalty : Ivor Novello and English operetta, 1917-1951 / Stewart Nicholls -- The American invasion : the impact of Oklahoma! and Annie get your gun / Dominic Symonds -- 'Ordinary people' and British musicals of the post-war decade / John Snelson -- After Anger : the British musical of the late 1950s / Elizabeth A. Wells -- 'I'm common and I like 'em' : represenations of class in the period musical after Oliver! / Ben Francis -- Towards a British concept musical : the shows of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse / David Cottis -- The pop-music industry and the British musical / Ian Sapiro -- 'Everybody's free to fail' : subsidized British revivals of the American canon / Sarah Browne -- Les misérables : from epic novel to epic musical / Kathryn M. Grossman and Bradley Stephens -- 'Humming the sets' : scenography and the spectacular musical from Cats to The Lord of the Rings / Christine White -- Billy Elliot and its lineage : the politics of class and sexual identity in British musicals since 1953 / Robert Gordon -- Noël Coward : sui generis / Dominic McHugh -- Joan Littlewood : collaboration and vision / Ben Macpherson -- Lionel Bart : British vernacular musical theatre / Millie Taylor -- Time Rice : the pop star scenario / Olaf Jubin -- Cameron Mackintosh : control, collaboration, and the creative producer / Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen -- Andrew Lloyd Webber : haunted by the Phantom / David Chandler -- The beggar's legacy : playing with music and drama, 1920-2003 / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- Mamma mia! and the aesthetics of the twenty-first century jukebox musical / George Rodosthenous -- Attracting the family market : shows with cross-generational appeal / Rebecca Warner -- Genre counterpoints : challenges to the mainstream musical / David Roesner -- Some yesterdays always remain : Black British and Anglo-Asian musical theatre / Ben Macpherson.

Call Number

JMF 17-83

ISBN

• 9780199988747
• 0199988749

LCCN

2016014652

OCLC

945804231

Title

The Oxford handbook of the British musical / edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Oxford handbooks]

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gordon, Robert, 1951 November 28- editor.

Jubin, Olaf, editor.

Research Call Number

JMF 17-83