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| Authors: |
Koegel, John, 1956-
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| Title: |
Music in German immigrant theater : New York City, 1840-1940 / John Koegel. |
| Published: |
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009. |
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| Description: |
xxv, 593 p. : ill., map, music ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Series: |
ISSN: Eastman studies in music , 1071-9989 ; v. 62 |
| Participants: |
Patricia Prunty, soprano ; Aram Barsamian, baritone ; George Sterne, tenor ; Nicole Baker, mezzo-soprano ; Robert Istad, baritone ; Grant Rohr, piano. |
| Contents: |
Musical theater in Little Germany, 1840-1918 : an imported European tradition. Early struggles, operatic beginnings, and the development of the German theater in New York City, 1840-1872 ; Musical farce and folk play at the Germania Theater, 1872-1883 ; Ethnic spaces : theatrical entertainments in German beer gardens and concert halls ; An orgy of operetta : the Thalia and Amberg theaters, 1879-1893 ; Drama on a higher plane : the Irving Place Theater, 1893-1918 -- Entr'acte : German American performers and characterizations. German American performers ; The "Dutch" act : German American theatrical and literary characterizations -- Adolf Philipp and the German American immigrant musical. Philipp's Germania Theater musical comedies, 1893-1902 ; The German American musical abroad : Philipp in Berlin, 1903-1907 ; From Klein Deutschland to Broadway : Philipp's works, 1907-1914 ; Divided loyalties : World War I and its aftermath. |
| Notes: |
Compact disc track list on p. [xv]-xvi.Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-574 and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781580462150 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1580462154 |
| Subject: |
Musical -- 20th century -- Excerpts.
Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
German Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.
Musicals -- 19th century -- Excerpts.
Revues -- Excerpts.
Philipp, Adolf, -- 1864-1936.
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| Other titles: |
Eastman studies in music ;v. 62.
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| HOLLIS number |
011983981 |
| Link to this record |
http://hollis.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c011983981
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