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The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals
During the Twenties, the Great White Way roared with nearly 300 book musicals. Luminaries who wrote for Broadway during this decade included Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, and Vincent Youmans, and the era’s stars included Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and Marilyn Miller. Light-hearted Cinderella musicals dominated these years with such hits as Kern’s long-running Sally, along with romantic operettas that dealt with princes and princesses in disguise. Plots about bootleggers and Prohibition abounded, but there were also serious musicals, including Kern and...
Operetta
Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a separate genre, an art form with its own special flavour and concerns, and no longer simply a "little...
The Cambridge Companion to Operetta
A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.
150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre
Covers the development of musicals, from the earliest European operetta styles of France and Germany to the modern musical of the United States and Britain.
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
Uncovers a world of forgotten triumphs of musical theatre that shine a light on major social topics. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
...Als die Noten laufen lernten...Band 2
...Als die Noten laufen lernten...Band 2 - beinhaltet die Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Unterhaltungsmusik bis zum Jahre 1945. Es geht vom ersten deutschen Kabarett "Überbrettl" zum Theaterleben mit allem Drum und Dran. Bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg spielte die Achse Berlin - Wien - Budapest - Prag eine große Rolle; wo die Entwicklung von der Operette über die Revue zur Filmmusik vollzogen wurde. Hier spielte im wahrsten Sinne die Musik! Als der Unheilsbringer 1933 die Weltbühne betrat, mussten die meisten U-Musiker, Librettisten und Texter emigrieren! Somit sorgten die vielen Exilanten dafür, dass besonders die USA von deren Kreativität profitieren konnten und in Europa saß man dann... Lassen Sie sich in eine Zeit entführen, als die "Jungs" es hier so richtig krachen ließen und die Noten durch flotte Rhythmen das Laufen lernten...
