Título: Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals
Autor: Adam Lenson
Sinopse: Musical theatre is a medium full of possibilities. As the intersection between music, song and storytelling there’s literally an infinite amount of different possible musicals. Musicals of different styles and tones and genres. Musicals that use song and scene in vastly distinct ways. Musicals that intersect with varied parts of the theatre ecology. But musical theatre has come to be publicly defined by an extremely narrow range of examples. The form seems to be entirely defined by a small set of ‘those musicals’. Now I would firstly say that I love a great number of those musicals. However, I am forever amazed by how much power a small selection of shows have over the perception, possibility and range of this form. I don’t need to name them. You know the ones I mean. I will say again that I love and admire many of these shows. But they are but a narrow fraction of the possibilities of the form. Music and stories are infinite and so are musicals. I also feel that by even a small group of musicals being collated together, both here and in public, consciousness sort of flattens out any of the radical choices that these shows made. The extreme prominence of a small selection of shows that largely function in a certain way leads to musical theatre being a medium that people think they can understand with very few data points. My sense has always been that people decide what musical theatre is faster and in a more lasting way because the public perception of the medium is linked to this very small range of works. Moreover, even as new data points come into the zeitgeist, I find a startling number of people still refer to the same canonical data points and think of any new shows as anomalies. For some reason, people seem to think they can understand the form of musical theatre from this incredibly small number of shows. How many films would you say need to be watched before you make a judgement on the possibilities of the medium? How many books would you say need to be read before you can make a judgement on the possibilities of the medium? I’m not trying to sound elitist. I truly believe in the democratisation of form. I just wonder why musicals get judged more quickly and more lastingly.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn’t Hate Musicals”, de Adam Lenson, publicado pela editora Salamander Street Ltd., em 2021 e com 200 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Salamander Street Ltd.
Páginas: 200
Ano: 2021
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Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1914228022
ISBN13: 9781914228025