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Coming up Roses - The Broadway Musical in the 1950s - Bog af Ethan Mordden - Paperback

Coming up Roses - The Broadway Musical in the 1950s - Bog af Ethan Mordden - Paperback

The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind of storytelling. In Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, Ethan Mordden gives us a guided tour of this rich decade. With loving detail, Mordden highlights the shift in Broadway from shows that were mere star vehicles,..

DKK 162.95
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Pick Yourself Up - Dorothy Fields and the American Musical - Bog af Charlotte ( Greenspan - Paperback

Pick Yourself Up - Dorothy Fields and the American Musical - Bog af Charlotte ( Greenspan - Paperback

Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as \On the Sunny Side of the Street,\ \I Can't Give You Anything But Love, \ and \The Way You Look Tonight.\ In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete treatment of Fields's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world. Born in 1904 into a show business family--her father, Lou Fields, was a famed stage comedian turned Broadway producer--Fields..

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Growing up with Jazz - Twenty Four Musicians Talk About Their Lives and Careers - Bog af W. Royal Stokes - Paperback

Growing up with Jazz - Twenty Four Musicians Talk About Their Lives and Careers - Bog af W. Royal Stokes - Paperback

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz , he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them. Stokes offers a kaleidoscopic look at the jazz scene, featuring musicians from a dazzling array of backgrounds. Ray Gelato recalls the life of a working class..

DKK 345.95
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All Shook Up - How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America - Bog af Glenn C. (Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies & and Dean of the School o

All Shook Up - How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America - Bog af Glenn C. (Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies & and Dean of the School o

Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.

DKK 237.95
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Owning Up - Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890 - Bog af Katherine (Associate Professor of English Adams - Hardba

Owning Up - Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890 - Bog af Katherine (Associate Professor of English Adams - Hardba

Owning Up argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as nineteenth-century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, and to identify it with sacred ideals of democratic freedom and individuality, they also understood it as under threat or erasure. Using biographical and autobiographical writing as her primary archive, Adams traces the public narrative ofimperiled privacy across five decades. Her analyses..

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American Saint - Francis Asbury and the Methodists - Bog af John (Professor of History Wigger - Hardback

American Saint - Francis Asbury and the Methodists - Bog af John (Professor of History Wigger - Hardback

In this definitive biography Asbury emerges as an effective and influential leader. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, John Wigger reveals how Asbury crafted a church to engage ordinary Americans and their world. Under Asbury, Methodism exerted a powerful pull on American culture, but was itself transformed in the process, a pattern repeated again and again in American religious history.

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