Professor Bill Messenger of The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University delivers 16 lectures (45 min. each) on the history of musicals and Broadway.
16 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (ii, 161 pages : music ; 19 cm) digital optical 1.4 m/s
Other Title:
Broadway musicals [book on CD]
Notes:
Compact discs "Course no. 7318"--Disc face Includes course guidebook Bill Messenger, lecturer
Contents:
Lecture 1. The essence of the musical Lecture 2. The minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) Lecture 3. Evolution of the verse/chorus song Lecture 4. The ragtime years (c. 1890-1917) Lecture 5. The vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) Lecture 6. Tin Pan Alley Lecture 7. Broadway in its infancy Lecture 8. The revue versus the book musical Lecture 9. Superstars on the horizon Lecture 10. Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) Lecture 11. Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, contrasts Lecture 12. George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) Lecture 13. Rodgers and Hammerstein era (1940s) Lecture 14. Golden age of musical theater (1950s) Lecture 15. Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) Lecture 16. Big bucks and long runs (1970s-present)
