Red Hot & Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical |  | Authors: Henderson Amy, Dwight Blocker Bowers
Publisher: Smithsonian
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 268
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Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.3 x 1
ISBN: 1560986980
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.10973074753
EAN: 9781560986980
ASIN: 1560986980
Publication Date: September 17, 1996
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
This luxuriant coffee table book is packed with photos, posters, design sketches and drawings that accompanied American musicals from 1866 to the present. The book was published to coincide with the Washington, DC, exhibition of the same name running through July 1997 at the National Portrait Gallery, which co-created both exhibition and book with the National Museum of American History. The book has two main strengths: One, it treats the musicals of Broadway and Hollywood as part of the same phenomenon, which makes sense, since there was so much crossover of creative personnel. Two, it traces the influence of ethnicity and economics on the art form, showing especially how deeply Jewish immigrants and northward-fleeing African-American former slaves poured their experiences and culture into America's greatest contribution to the history of world theater.
Product Description
Featuring nearly three hundred color and black-and-white photographs, a survey of the Hollywood and Broadway musical from vaudeville to today's major revivals, published to coincide with a 1996 Smithsonian exhibit, spotlights the personalities behind the art form. UP.
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| Customer Reviews:
It makes a gorgeous coffee-table book, but it's a lot more. June 14, 1998
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The development of American musicals is a gift we gave to the world, but how do we begin? This book is a cultural history, focusing on the interweaving history of theater and film musicals. Red, Hot, and Blue brings in the various elements that go into creating a musical movie or play. These include performers, songwriters, directors, choreographers all within the framework of the society in which they work. It presents the atmosphere in which an art form was created.Photographs, posters, sheet music, all help to illustrate this phenomenon called musical theater, which blossomed during the 20th century. It also offers other sources for further information on any of the aspects treated here. -Elizabeth Ahlfors
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