Great American music Broadway musicals
Title:
Great American music Broadway musicals
Author:
Messenger, Bill.
Personal Author:
Edition:
[DVD version].
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2006]
©2006
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
Summary:
A series of sixteen lectures by Bill Messenger on the origins and variety of Broadway musicals.
General Note:
Library ed.
"Art & music"--Container.
"Music & fine arts"--Discs.
Guidebooks numbered 7318-01 (part 1) and 7318-02 (part 2).
Language:
English
Contents:
Disc 1. 1. The essence of the musical -- 2. The minstrel era, 1828 to c. 1900 -- 3. Evolution of the verse/chorus song -- 4. The ragtime years [c. 1890-1917] -- Disc 2. 5. The Vaudeville era [1881 to c. 1935] -- 6. Tin Pan Alley -- 7. Broadway in its infancy -- 8. The revue versus the book musical -- Disc 3. Superstars on the horizon -- 10. Transition into the Jazz Age [1916-20] -- 11. Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern : contrasts -- 12. George Gershwin's legacy [1919 to c. 1935] -- Disc 4. 13 Rodgers and Hammerstein era [1940s] -- Golden age of musical theater [1950s] -- Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway [1960s] -- 16. Big bucks and long runs [1970s-present].
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ISBN:
9781598032024
