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001 2014010868
003 DLC
005 20150613083449.0
008 140512s2014 nyuag 000 0 eng
010 $a 2014010868
020 $a9781107051003 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aML1731.8.L7$bP67 2014
082 00 $a792.609421/09041$223
084 $aDRA004000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aPopular musical theatre in London and Berlin, 1890 to 1939 /$cedited by Len Platt, Tobias Becker and David Linton.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 284 pages :$billustrations, music ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revues and operettas to dance halls and cabaret. Bringing together contributors from Britain and Germany, this collection moves beyond national theatre histories to study Anglo-German relations at a period of intense hostility and rivalry. Chapters frame the entertainment zones of London and Berlin against the wider trading routes of cultural transfer, where empire and transatlantic song and dance produced, perhaps for the first time, a genuinely international culture. Exploring adaptations and translations of works under the influence of political propaganda, this collection will be of interest both to musical theatre enthusiasts and to those interested in the wider history of modernism"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction Len Platt, Tobias Becker and David Linton; Part I. The Mechanics of Transfer and Translation: 1. Berlin/London: London/Berlin: an outline of cultural transfer 1890-1914 Len Platt; 2. Local contexts and genre construction in early Continental musical theatre Marion Linhardt; 3. German operetta in the West End and on Broadway Derek B. Scott; 4. The Arcadians and Filmzauber: adaptation and the popular musical theatre text Tobias Becker; 5. How a sweet Viennese girl became a fair international lady: transfer, performance, modernity Stefan Frey; 6. 'A happy man can live in the past': musical theatre transfer in the 1920s and 1930s Len Platt and Tobias Becker; Part II. Atlantic Traffic: 7. Hullo Ragtime! West End revue and the Americanisation of popular culture in pre-1914 Britain Peter Bailey; 8. The Argentine tango: a transatlantic dance on the European Stage Kerstin Lange; 9. Dover Street to Dixie and the politics of cultural transfer and exchange David Linton and Len Platt; 10. The transculturality of stage, song and other media: intermediality in popular musical theatre Carolin Stahrenberg and Nils Grosch; Part III. Representation in Transition: Stage Others: 11. The Sandow Girl and her sisters: the construction and performance of the healthy female body in fin de siècle musical comedy Viv Gardner; 12. West End musical theatre and the representation of Germany Len Platt; 13. The Tropical Express: an exotic non-stop revue in Nazi Germany Susann Lewrenz; 14. Operetta and propaganda: the politicisation of popular musical theatre in the Third Reich Matthias Kauffmann.
650 0 $aMusical theater$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMusical theater$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMusical theater$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMusical theater$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
651 0 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century.
651 0 $aBerlin (Germany)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
651 0 $aBerlin (Germany)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century.
650 7 $aDRAMA / Continental European.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aPlatt, Len,$eeditor.
700 1 $aBecker, Tobias,$eeditor.
700 1 $aLinton, David,$d1967-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/51003/cover/9781107051003.jpg