Includes chapters on Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Record details
ISBN:0879512830 :
Physical Description:x, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Woodstock, N.Y. :Overlook Press,1987.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 364-367.
Formatted Contents Note:
Will It Be Bach that I Hear, or Just a Cole Porter Song?/Overture -- Before the Ball/American Musical Theatre Before American Musicals (1866-1900) -- The Tin-Pan-Tithesis of Melody/Ameican Song, American Sound -- Say It with Music/Irving Berlin -- When E'er a Cloud Appears in the Blue/Jerome Kern -- Pounding on Tin/George and Ira Gershwin -- Only Possible with Music/Movie Musicals (1927-1932) -- The Kaleidoscope Waltz/Busby Berkeley -- Gonna Write My Footsteps on the Sand of Time/Fred Astaire in Black and White -- It Feels like Neuritis, but Nevertheless It's Love/Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart -- Do Do that Voodoo that You Do So Well/Cole Porter -- As Corny as Kansas in August, As Restless as a Willow in a Windstorm/Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- The Bigger The Army and the Navy, the Better the Loving Will Be/Warners, Paramount, Universal, and Fox (1936-1953) -- And Best of All, He's American/Arthur Freed and MGM -- Mount Hollywood Art School/Five Films of the Fifties -- From the Horse Right Here to the Rain in Spain/Broadway and Hollywood (1948-1968) -- The State of the Art, My Friend/Modernist Musical Metaphor on Stage and Screen (1970- ) -- And Point Me Toward Tomorrow/Finale
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