The Routledge companion to the contemporary musical / edited by Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Routledge music companions.
Other Authors: Sternfeld, Jessica, 1971- (Editor)
Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge music companions.
Subjects:
Musicals > History and criticism.
Musicals.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:x, 486 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wooman
  • Part 1. Setting the stage: an introduction to analyzing the musical theater
  • 1. Musical theater reception theory, or what happens when you see a show? / Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf
  • 2. "[Title of chapter]" / Millie Taylor
  • Part 2. Starting with the '70s
  • 3. They're playing my song: the American musical in the me-decade / Bryan M. Vandevender
  • 4. "My corner of the sky": adolescence and coming of age in the musicals of Stephen Schwartz / Ryan Bunch
  • 5. Style as star: Bob Fosse and sixty seconds that changed Broadway / Ryan Donovan
  • 6. Recreating the ephemeral: Broadway revivals since 1971 / James Lovensheimer
  • Part 3. Aesthetic transformations
  • 7. Sing: musical theater voices from Superstar to Hamilton / Ben Macpherson
  • 8. Amplifying Broadway after the golden age / Arreanna Rostosky
  • 9. Starlight expression and phantom operatics: technology, performance and the megamusical's aesthetic of the voice / Dominic Symonds
  • 10. The sung and the spoken in Michael John LaChiusa's musicals / Alex Bádue
  • 11. The new "sounds of Broadway": orchestrating electronic instruments in contemporary musicals / Michael M. Kennedy
  • 12. Chart-toppers to showstoppers: pop artists scoring the Broadway stage / Matthew Lockitt
  • 13. Scenographic aesthetics and automated technologies in Broadway musicals / Christin Essin
  • Part 4. Reading the musical through gender
  • 14. Do-re-#MeToo: women, work and representation in the Broadway musical / Mary Jo Lodge
  • 15. It's still working: collaborating to perform the stories of everyday Americans, then and now / Trudi Wright
  • 16. The pink elephant in the room / Aaron C. Thomas
  • 17. "A little more mascara": drag and the Broadway musical from La cage aux folles to Kinky boots / John M. Clum
  • Part 5. Reading the musical through race and ethnicity
  • 18. The multiracial musical metropolis: casting and race after A chorus line / Todd Decker
  • 19. "Before the parade passes by": all-black and all-Asian Hello, dolly! as celebration of difference / Sissi Liu
  • 20. Race and the city: racial formation in Avenue Q / SAJones
  • 21. Can we "Leave behind the world we know"? exploring race and ethnicity in the musicals of Lin-Manuel Miranda / Elizabeth Titrington Craft
  • 22. Falsettos and indecent in the shadow of Fiddler on the roof: reconsidering Jewish identity on Broadway in the new millennium / Raymond Knapp and Zelda Knapp
  • Part 6. Reading the musical through dance
  • 23. What makes a musical? Contact (2000) and debates about genre at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Joanna Dee Das
  • 24. Dance in musical theater revival and adaptation: engaging with the past while creating dances for the present / Liza Gennaro
  • 25. The convergence of dance styles in Hamilton: an American musical / Phoebe Rumsey
  • Part 7. Reading the musical through interdisciplinary lenses
  • 26. Post-secular musicals in a post-truth world / Jake Johnson
  • 27. Let's do the time warp again: performing time, genre, and spectatorship / Sarah Taylor Ellis
  • 28. The eye of the storm: reading next to normal with psychoanalysis / Aleksei Grinenko
  • 29. Parent/child relationships in the musicals of Stephen Schwartz / Paul R. Laird
  • 30. John Kander: the first ninety-one years / James Leve
  • 31. Unlikely subjects: the critical reception of history musicals / Elissa Harbert
  • Part 8. Beyond Broadway: new media and fan studies
  • 32. Worshipping Lin-Manuel Miranda: fans and totems in the digital age / Jessica Hillman-McCord
  • 33. "Trash talk and virtual protests: the musical genre's personal and political interactivity in the age of social media" / Kelly Kessler
  • 34. The great generational divide: stage-to-screen Hollywood musical adaptations and the enactment of fandom / Holley Replogle-Wong
  • 35. Play it again (and again, and again): the superfan and musical theater / James Deaville
  • 36. Joss Whedon and the geek musical / Renée Camus
  • 37. "YouTube! musicals! YouTubesicals!" cultivating theater fandom through new media / Aya Esther Hayashi
  • 38. Dual-focus strategy in a serial narrative: SMASH, Nashville, and the television musical series / Robynn Stilwell
  • Part 9. Growth and expansion: across the country and around the world
  • 39. Sharon McQueen and Milwaukee's alternative regional musical theater / Amanda McQueen
  • 40. Musicals in the regional theater / Jeffrey Ullom
  • 41. Big river: a new road to Broadway / Steven Adler
  • 42. The third biggest market: musical theater in Germany since 1990 / Frédéric Döhl
  • 43. The Korean self/American other: Korean musical theater in the context of national cultural development / Hyunjung Lee
  • 44. The lion king: an international history / Susan Bennett.