Great American Music : Broadway Musicals.

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Call Number: BOCD 782.12 Me Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 782.12 Me Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
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).
Bill Messenger, lecturer.
Professor Messenger of Johns Hopkins University delivers lectures on the history of musicals and Broadway.

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