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Author: Jeffrey Magee (Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology, Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology, University of Illinois School of Music, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States of America)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.576kg
ISBN: 9780199381012
ISBN 10: 0199381011
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 10 July 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Recommended. --Choice Drawing on a vast and previously unexplored gold mine of archival materials, Magee brilliantly shapes fresh perspectives on key shows by Irving Berlin, delivering a text that is simultaneously erudite and accessible. --Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music, Harvard University An outstanding account of one of the leading composers of the Broadway and Hollywood musical. Magee has an unrivaled command of the sources, and offers important new critical approaches to this music in its theatrical contexts: the benefits are clear in his treatment of Annie Get Your Gun. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in American musical theater of the mid twentieth century. --Tim Carter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical An astonishingly rich book. Everything about it is appealing. The research is prodigious; the cultural analysis fresh and compelling. Like Berlin himself, Magee makes show business come alive, from the first song to the last. --Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Professor of Music Emerita, Brown University One of the glories of Magee's book is the sheer abundance of fascinating detail. --Jewish Journal [A] very welcome book, the first to focus on the span of Berlin's career in American musical theatre ... Drawing on extensive archival resources, Magee includes both musicological and literary analysis along with the sociological setting with a thoroughness that often enlightens. --Times LiterarySupplement Thanks to Magee and Sears as well as to other scholars, Irving Berlin's ever-trenchant Jewish inspiration continues to be revealed as a major aspect of his mighty achievement. --The Forward A fine addition to an already burgeoning section of a theater lover's bookshelf. --DC Theatre Scene Offers a unique perspective on the history of American musical theatre from World War I to the early 1960s, and
Recommended. * Choice *
Author Information
Jeffrey Magee is Professor of Music and Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of The Uncrowned King of Swing, winner of the Irving Lowens Award from the Society for American Music.
