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Broadway to Main Street : how show tunes enchanted America
- Title
- Broadway to Main Street : how show tunes enchanted America / Laurence Maslon.
- Author
- Maslon, Laurence
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
- Supplementary Content
- Web site containing links to audio examples
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *LE 18-2409 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Details
- Description
- xix, 252 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- A chronicle of how the songs of American musical theater made their way through sheet music, popular recordings, the radio, original castalbums, television, CDs, and the Internet from the theater district to living rooms across the country.
- Subjects
- Musicals
- Popular music
- Dissemination of music
- Popular music > United States > History and criticism
- History
- Musicals > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
- New York (State) > New York
- Original cast recordings
- Sound recordings > Production and direction > History
- United States
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Music and the Private Space of Broadway -- 1. Turn Over for Act Two -- Content and the Context of Broadway -- 2. Jewish Population of Tennessee -- Sheet Music and the Imprimatur of Broadway -- 3. Face the Music (and Dance) -- Gramophone and the Voice of Broadway -- 4. Majestic Theater of the Air -- Radio and the Personality of Broadway -- 5. Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends -- Album Sets and the Narrative of Broadway -- 6. Every Home's a First Night -- Long-Playing Record and the Commodity of Broadway -- 7. Songs for Swingin' Show Fans -- Hit Singles and the Catalog of Broadway -- 8. "And My Fair Lady Is a Terrific Show, They Say" -- Record Producer and the Blockbuster of Broadway -- 9. Hymn for a Sunday Evening -- Television and the Mythology of Broadway -- 10. Few of My Favorite Things -- Movie Stars and the Soundtrack of Broadway -- 11. Was There Too Much of a Crowd, All Too Lush and Loud? -- Pop Singles and the Adult Contemporaneity of Broadway -- 12. Losing My Timing This Late in My Career -- Rock Scene and the Middle of the Road for Broadway -- 13. "You Never Seen a Show Like This Before!" -- Compact Discs and the Digitization of Broadway -- 14. History Has Its Eyes on You -- Internet and the Mixtape of Broadway.
- Call Number
- *LE 18-2409
- ISBN
- 9780199832538
- 0199832536
- LCCN
- 2017034396
- OCLC
- 1002722407
- 1002722407
- Author
- Maslon, Laurence, author.
- Title
- Broadway to Main Street : how show tunes enchanted America / Laurence Maslon.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
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- Other Form:
- Online version: Maslon, Laurence. Broadway to Main Street. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] 9780199832545 (DLC) 2017042504
- Research Call Number
- *LE 18-2409