Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin
1890 to 1939
- Editors:
- Len Platt, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Tobias Becker, Freie Universität Berlin
- David Linton, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Date Published: April 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108458238
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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.
Read more- Positions popular musical theatre in relation to the dominant themes of twentieth-century historiography
- Discusses the many forms of popular musical theatre, including revues, operettas, dance hall songs and cabaret
- Reveals how cultural transfer and exchange moved beyond the nation state in the early days of cultural globalisation
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- Date Published: April 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108458238
- length: 298 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus. 4 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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