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Our Musicals, Ourselves

A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

By: John Bush Jones

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Our Musicals, Ourselves

A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

By: John Bush Jones

Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with wonderful, diversionary shows like The Music Man or My Fair Lady, John Bush Jones instead selects musicals for their social relevance and the extent to which they engage, directly or metaphorically, contemporary politics and culture. Organized chronologically, with some liberties taken to keep together similarly themed musicals, Jones examines dozens of Broadway shows from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present that demonstrate numerous links between what played on Broadway and what played on newspapersÕ front pages across our nation. He reviews the productions, lyrics, staging, and casts from the lesser-known early musicals (the ÒgunboatÓ musicals of the Teddy Roosevelt era and the ÒCinderella showsÓ and Òleisure time musicalsÓ of the 1920s) and continues his analysis with better-known shows including Showboat, Porgy and Bess, Oklahoma, South Pacific, West Side Story, Cabaret, Hair, Company, A Chorus Line, and many others. While most examinations of the American musical focus on specific shows or emphasize the development of the musical as an art form, JonesÕs book uses musicals as a way of illuminating broader social and cultural themes of the times. With six appendixes detailing the long-running diversionary musicals and a foreword by Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, JonesÕs comprehensive social history will appeal to both students and fans of Broadway.

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Brandeis University Press

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1611682231

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9781611682236

Reinventing Dixie

Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South

By: John Bush Jones

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Reinventing Dixie

Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South

By: John Bush Jones

Tin Pan Alley, once New York City’s songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary view of the South as a land of southern belles, gallant gentlemen, and racial harmony. In profiles of Tin Pan Alley’s lyricists and composers, Jones explains how a group of undereducated and untraveled writers—the vast majority of whom were urban northerners or European immigrants— constructed the specific and detailed images of the South used in their song lyrics. In the process of evaluating the origins of Tin Pan Alley’s songbook, Jones analyzes these songwriters’ attitudes about North-South reconciliation, ideals of honor and hospitality, and the recurring theme of the yearning for home. Though a few of the songs employed parody or satire to undercut the vision of a peaceful, romantic South, the majority ignored the realities of racism and poverty in the region. By the end of Tin Pan Alley’s era of cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth century, Jones contends that the work of its writers had cemented the “moonlight and magnolias” myth in the minds of millions of Americans. Reinventing Dixie sheds light on the role of songwriters in forming an idyllic vision of the South that continues to influence the American imagination.

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LSU Press

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080715945X

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9780807159453

Uncle Daniel’s Story of “Tom” Anderson

By: John McElroy

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Uncle Daniel’s Story of “Tom” Anderson

By: John McElroy

Reproduction of the original: Uncle Daniel’s Story of “Tom” Anderson by John McElroy

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3752413816

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Our Musicals, Ourselves

A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

By: John Bush Jones

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A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

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Brandeis University Press

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The Songs that Fought the War

Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945

By: John Bush Jones

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The Songs that Fought the War

Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945

By: John Bush Jones

A lively social history of popular wartime songs and how they helped America's home front morale.

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UPNE

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1584654430

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All-out for Victory!

Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front

By: John Bush Jones

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All-out for Victory!

Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front

By: John Bush Jones

Madaus, Russell, and Higgins (all, Boston College) provide an exemplary overview of the consequences of high-stakes testing in the context of contemporary school reform policy. A major theme in this book centers on the assertion that high-stakes testing is the driving force behind school reform policy today. The authors argue that school reform policies, based solely on high-stakes testing, were mandated before careful research on the potential advantages and disadvantages. As members of the testing community, the authors do find value in testing; however, they also recognize its limitations, especially in the context of diverse populations. Those in charge of developing and implementing school reform policies today would find this to be an excellent resource; however, the book is also appropriate for a wide audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Reviewed by J. C. Agnew-Tally.

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1584657685

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Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology

The Grasshopper; Where’s the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience

By: John Hollingshead,James Albery,F.C. Burnand,W.S. Gilbert

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Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology

The Grasshopper; Where’s the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience

By: John Hollingshead,James Albery,F.C. Burnand,W.S. Gilbert

From long-haired 'Fleshly Poets' to intense, 'ultra pre-Raphaelite' artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the Aesthetic Movement. During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the zeitgeist, capitalizing on the unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. The 'quite too utterly utter' Apostles of this new school were satirized to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) complained that the London stage was 'thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers', with 'aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced'. This edited volume brings the four key plays satirizing the Aesthetic Movement together for the first time in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to discover their secrets: The Grasshopper by John Hollingshead (Gaiety Theatre, 1877) Where's The Cat? by James Albery (Criterion, 1880) The Colonel by F.C. Burnand (Prince of Wales's Theatre, 1881) Patience by W.S. Gilbert (Opera Comique/Savoy, 1881) Including a brief introduction by Dr. Devon Cox, providing background and context to the dynamic, symbiotic relationship between the Aesthetic Movement and the British stage, and complete with biographical notes and an introduction to each play, Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology shines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British Theatre

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350417785

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Music Wars

Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960

By: John C. Hajduk

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Music Wars

Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960

By: John C. Hajduk

In the mid-twentieth century, certain elements of the American popular music industry (publishers, recording companies, and broadcasters) began to redefine their product as something more than mere entertainment. This became evident in the arguments made by competing sides in a series of clashes that unfolded during that period, starting with the ASCAP-Radio dispute of 1941 and ending with the payola scandal in 1959. Although these disputes typically revolved around economic issues, in making their cases to the public the respective sides often asserted the significant role played by popular music in promoting core national values. While such rhetoric was basically self-serving, when set against the backdrop of major events like World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Cold War, it resonated strongly with the public and helped convince many that popular music offered more to its audience than momentary diversion. Considering that the resolutions to these conflicts also tended to expand opportunities for previously marginalized styles and performers, notably African-Americans and rural southerners, it became natural to link popular music to ideas of social progress as well. This contributed to the creation of what could be called “rock and roll culture,” a coherent set of values related to concepts of youth, authenticity, sexual liberation, and social equality that emerged by the end of the 1950s. These traits became a prevalent part of American culture through the end of the twentieth century, with popular music seen a perhaps the most significant medium for expressing those values.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498575889

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9781498575881

K-Pop

Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

By: John Lie

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K-Pop

Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

By: John Lie

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.

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Univ of California Press

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0520283120

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The Songs that Fought the War

Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945

By: John Bush Jones

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Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945

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A lively social history of popular wartime songs and how they helped America's home front morale.

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Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, held in 1860, at Charleston and Baltimore

By: John Gibson Parkhurst

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Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, held in 1860, at Charleston and Baltimore

By: John Gibson Parkhurst

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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3375106580

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All-Out for Victory!

Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front

By: John Bush Jones

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All-Out for Victory!

Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front

By: John Bush Jones

A lively look at magazine ads during World War II and their roles in sustaining morale and promoting home-front support of the war, with lots of illustrations

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1584658339

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Book's by John Bush Jones

Our Musicals, Ourselves

Our Musicals, Ourselves

Reinventing Dixie

Reinventing Dixie

Uncle Daniel’s Story of “Tom” Anderson

Uncle Daniel’s Story of “Tom” Anderson

Our Musicals, Ourselves

Our Musicals, Ourselves

The Songs that Fought the War

The Songs that Fought the War

All-out for Victory!

All-out for Victory!

Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology

Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology

Music Wars

Music Wars

K-Pop

K-Pop

The Songs that Fought the War

The Songs that Fought the War

Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, held in 1860, at Charleston and Baltimore

Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, held in 1860, at Charleston and Baltimore

All-Out for Victory!

All-Out for Victory!

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