Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion

by Kat Sherrell

Book Overview

Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that became uniquely American. It concludes with an examination of current musical trends and practices on Broadway. As a musician who works on Broadway and in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810889005
• ISBN13: 9780810889002
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"