| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (66, 68 pages ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Great Courses, Art & Music |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Taught by professor Bill Messenger, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. |
| Credits |
Producer, editor, Jaimee M. Aigret ; content supervisor, Ann Waigand ; image acquisition, Stephanie Gutgesell ; audio engineer, Ed Salzman ; studio engineer, Sal Rodriguez. |
| Summary |
A series of sixteen lectures by Bill Messenger on the origins and variety of Broadway musicals. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. The essence of the musical ; The minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) ; Evolution of the verse/chorus song ; The ragtime years (c. 1890-1917) -- Disc 2. The Vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) ; Tin Pan Alley ; Broadway in its infancy -; The revue versus the book musical -- Disc 3. Superstars on the horizon ; Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) ; Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern : contrasts ; George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) -- Disc 4. Rogers and Hammerstein era (1940s) ; Golden age of musical theater (1950s) ; Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) ; Big bucks and long runs (1970s-present). |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Musical theater -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musical theater -- United States.
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Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musicals -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Broadway musicals |
| ISBN |
159803202X |
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9781598032024 |
| Music No. |
7318 Teaching Co. |
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