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  • Embodied Nostalgia

    Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre

    by Phoebe Rumsey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910 ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Dance in Musical Theatre

    A History of the Body in Movement

    by Dr. Amanda Jane Olmstead ...
    From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre.Through the integration of song and dance in the 'dream ballets' of choreographers like Agnes De Mille; the triple threat performances of Jerome Robbins' dancers; the signature style creation by choreographers like Bob Fosse with dancers like Gwen Verdon; ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Changed for Good

    A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

    by Stacy Wolf ...
    From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers, creators, and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Theater Will Rock

    A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig

    by Elizabeth Lara Wollman ...
    Series series Anthropology series
    "A much-needed study of the impact of rock music on the musical theater and its resulting challenges, complexities, failures, and successes. Anyone interested in Broadway will learn a great deal from this book."---William Everett, author of The Musical: A Research Guide to Musical Theatre"As Wollman weaves her historical narrative, she compellingly returns to . . . the conflict between the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Dance Appreciation

    by Dawn Loring, Julie Pentz ...
    Dance is an activity that everyone can enjoy, and Dance Appreciation will help students do just that.Dance Appreciation is written to encompass the needs of a broad range of dance students, from high school to university level, and is appropriate for students who are new to dance as well as those who are experienced in the art form. The text will help learners discover more about themselves, ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Well Met

    Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture

    by Rachel Lee Rubin ...
    Rubin deftly reveals the impact the Faire has had on style, craft, performance, and pop culture over the past fifty years in a one-of-a-kind study." —David Ossman, member of the Firesign TheatreBeginning with the chaotic communal moment of the Renaissance Faire's founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major "family friendly" leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing Underground

    A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement

    by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression."-William Coco"At last---a book documenting the beginnings of Off-Off Broadway theater. Playing Underground is an insightful, illuminating, and honest appraisal of this important period in American theater."-Rosalyn Drexler, author of Art Does ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism

    by Sally Banes ...
    Drawing of the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpsichore in Sneakers, Sally Banes's Writing Dancing documents the background and developments of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how postmodern dance is integrally connected to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choreographing Copyright

    Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance

    by Anthea Kraut ...
    Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.S. dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their raced and gendered politics, showing how dancers have embraced intellectual property rights as a ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Musical Theatre Histories

    Expanding the Narrative

    by Millie Taylor, Adam Rush ...
    Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic 'histories', Millie ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical

    by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Patrick Lonergan, Professor Elizabeth L. Wollman ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    This Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical provides the perfect introductory text for students of theatre, music and cultural studies. It traces the history and development of the industry and art form in America with a particular focus on its artistic and commercial development in New York City from the early 20th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on commercial, artistic and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen

    Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'

    Edited by George Rodosthenous ...
    The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial politics, outreach work and impact of stage, film and television adaptations. Covering early 20th ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD