Dangerous rhythm : why movie musicals matter / Richard Barrios.
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TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 384 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199973842 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'36 Summary: Insightful, exuberant, and witty, 'Dangerous Rhythm' offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to Les Miserables.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Insightful, exuberant, and witty, 'Dangerous Rhythm' offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to Les Miserables.
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