Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American...

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical

Robert L. McLaughlin
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From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean.

 Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, have helped to establish him as one of the worlds preeminent composer/lyricist of his, if not of all, time.

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein–style of musical that had dominated Broadway stages for twenty years to a new postmodern musical.

This new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century musical that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of language.

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.

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Jahr:
2016
Auflage:
Reissue
Verlag:
University Press of Mississippi
Sprache:
english
ISBN 10:
1496808576
ISBN 13:
9782016005507
Datei:
EPUB, 1.94 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2016
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