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Title

Can't help singin' : the American musical on stage and screen / Gerald Mast.

Author

Mast, Gerald, 1940-

Publication

Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

x, 389 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Includes chapters on Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Subject

• Musicals > United States > History and criticism
• Musical films > United States > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 364-367.

Contents

Will It Be Bach that I Hear, or Just a Cole Porter Song?/Overture -- Before the Ball/American Musical Theatre before American Musicals (1866-1900) -- The Tin-Pan-Tithesis of Melody/American Song, American Sound -- Say It with Music/Irving Berlin -- When E'er a Cloud Appears in the Blue/Jerome Kern -- Pounding on Tin/George and Ira Gershwin -- Only Possible with Music/Movie Musicals (1927-1932) -- The Kaleidoscope Waltz/Busby Berkeley -- Gonna Write My Footsteps on the Sand of Time/Fred Astaire in Black and White -- It Feels like Neuritis, but Nevertheless It's Love/Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart -- Do Do that Voodoo that You Do So Well/Cole Porter -- As Corny as Kansas in August, As Restless as a Willow in a Windstorm/Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- The Bigger the Army and the Navy, the Better the Loving Will Be/Warners, Paramount, Universal, and Fox (1936-1953) -- And Best of All, He's American/Arthur Freed and MGM -- Mount Hollywood Art School/Five Films of the Fifties -- From the Horse Right Here to the Rain in Spain/Broadway and Hollywood (1948-1968) -- The State of the Art, My Friend/Modernist Musical Metaphor on Stage and Screen (1970- ) -- And Point Me toward Tomorrow/Finale.

ISBN

• 0879512830 (cloth) :
• 0879513624 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^87007986^

OCLC

• 15366167
• SCSB-10299362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library