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Table of Contents: “…Musical characterisation in HMS Pinafore and the Rocky horror show -- Encoding the voice : Show boat, Guys and dolls, and musical theatre post-1960 -- Integration and distance in musical theatre : the case of Sweeney Todd -- Layers of representation and the creation of irony : Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Merrily we roll along and The last 5 years -- Alternatives to linearity : Cabaret, Kiss of the spider woman and Assassins -- Illusions of realism in West Side story and actor-musician performances -- Experiencing live musical theatre performance : La Cage aux Folles and Priscilla, queen of the desert -- I've heard that song before : the jukebox musical and entertainment in Jersey boys, Rock of ages, Mamma mia and We will rock you.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Establishment of Musical Theatre in America: A Brief Historical Overview -- Musical Entertainments: Genres and Styles -- The Parts and the Whole: Relationships, Forms, and Revisions -- The Theatres -- And All the Trimmings -- The Acting Company -- Melpomene, Mirth, and Melody: Acting Traditions -- The Singer and the Song -- The Orchestra in the Theatre -- The Modern Performance -- Appendix A: A Preliminary Checklist of Musical Entertainments Performed in the United States, 1785-1815 -- Appendix B: Musical Theatre Performances in Five American Cities, 1801-1815 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The melting-pot of American opera and musical theatre --…”

“…Forgotten stars of the musical theatre.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Buckley -- v. 2. 1870-1945 -- The hieroglyphic stage: American theatre and society, post-Civil War to 1945 / Thomas Postlewait -- A changing theatre: New York and beyond / John Frick -- Play and playwrights: Civil war to 1896 / Tice Miller -- Plays and playwrights: 1896-1915 / Ronald Wainscott -- Plays and playwrights: 1915-1945 / Brenda Murphy -- Theatre groups and their playwrights / Mark Fearnow -- Popular entertainment / Brooks McNamara -- Musical theatre / Thomas Riis -- Actors and acting / Daniel J. …”

Table of Contents: “…The audience / Willmar Sauter ; The art of acting / Josette Féral ; Music theatre and musical theatre / Zachary Dunbar ; Circus / Marius Kwint -- Pt.V. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Stars and spectacles -- The pendulum swings -- Realism of a sort -- The players were the thing -- New century, boom times -- Real stagy life -- Operettas and follies -- Pressure for change -- Business as usual -- and different -- Eugene O'Neill -- New voices in the twenties -- Musical theatre in transition -- Twin menaces -- In the commercial mainstream -- Hope out of despair -- The loud, rude and vigorous thirties -- In the war years -- Brave plans -- vain hopes -- A new era -- the musical dominates -- Forgetting the war -- Skidding downhill -- Of violence and fluff -- Quality from abroad -- The musical triumphant -- The rise of off Broadway -- Disarray in th sixties -- Many valleys, few peaks -- Be thankful for imports -- Of acting, directing and designing -- New forces and new hope.…”

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Table of Contents: “…-- The Music within us -- Music and mystery -- Music and words -- Pictures in music -- Silence -- Music and drama -- Movement and music -- Exploring stringed instruments -- Space and time -- Patterns in nature -- Short sounds and long sounds -- Exploring the piano (1) -- Exploring the piano (2) -- Exploring the piano (3) -- Shapes into music -- Sounds on tape -- Exploring melody (1) : runes and incantations -- Exploring melody (2) L pentatonic patters -- Word sounds -- Notes, modes and rows (1) -- Notes, modes and rows (2) -- Music and numbers -- Music by chance -- Heterephony (1) -- Heterophony (2) -- Discovering harmony -- Building a chord -- The Primary triads -- Major and minor modes -- Passing notes and auxiliary notes (1) -- Passing notes and auxilliary notes (2) -- The secondary triads -- Suspensions -- Night music -- Theatre piece.…”

Table of Contents: “…Ecopoetry -- Erotic literature -- Fantasy literature -- Film adaptions of books -- Flash fiction -- GLBTQ literature -- Graphic novels -- Historical fantasy -- Historical fiction -- Historical mysteries -- Historical writing (nonfiction) -- Holocaust literature -- Humor -- Inspirational literature (nonfiction) -- Jewish American literature -- Language poetry -- Latino American literature -- Legal thrillers -- Literary journalism -- Magical realism -- Manga and anime -- Military literature -- Musical theatre -- Mystery fiction -- V. 3. Native American literature -- New age literature -- Occult/supernatural literature -- Parapsychology -- Philological thrillers -- Poetry -- Regional fiction -- Road fiction -- Romance novels -- Science fiction -- Science writing (nonfiction) -- Sea literature -- Self-help literature -- Series fiction -- Sports literature -- Spy fiction -- Suspense fiction -- Sword and sorcery fiction -- V. 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…metalepsis in music videos -- Erwin Feyersinger : Metaleptic TV crossovers -- Jeff Thoss : "Some weird kind of video feedback time warp zapping thing": television, remote controls and metalepsis -- Keyvan Sarkhosh : Metalepsis in popular comedy film -- Jean-Marc Limoges : Metalepsis in the cartoons of Tex Avery: expanding the boundaries of transgression -- Karin Kukkonen : Metalepsis in comics and graphic novels -- Roberta Hofer : Metalepsis in live performance: holographic projections of the cartoon band "gorillaz" as a means of metalepsis -- Harald Fricke : Pop-culture in history: metalepsis and metareference in German and Italian music theatre -- John Pier : Afterword -- General bibliography on metalepsis.…”
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