Great American music : Broadway musicals / [Bill Messenger].
Audiobook on CD/MP3 | Teaching Co. | 2006 | Library edition.

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Edition
Library edition.
Description
16 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebook.
Series
The great courses
Great courses (Compact disc)
Performer
Bill Messenger, lecturer.
Note
Compact discs.
Contents
Lecture 1. The essence of the musical -- Lecture 2. The minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) -- Lecture 3. Evolution of the verse/chorus song -- Lecture 4. The ragtime years (c. 1890-1917) -- Lecture 5. The vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) -- Lecture 6. Tin Pan Alley -- Lecture 7. Broadway in its infancy -- Lecture 8. The revue versus the book musical--Lecture 9. Superstars on the horizon -- Lecture 10. Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) -- Lecture 11. Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern--contrasts -- Lecture 12. George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) -- Lecture 13. Rogers and Hammerstein era (1940s) -- Lecture 14. Golden age of musical theater (1950s) -- Lecture 15. Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) -- Lecture 16. Big bucks and long runs (1970s-present).
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GMD: sound recording.
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Broadway musicals
ISBN
1598032011
Standard No.
9781598032017
Music No.
7318 Teaching Co.
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