Dangerous Rhythm
Why Movie Musicals Matter
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 October 2015
- ISBN 9780190262617
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 231x155x17 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 0
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Short description:
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, award-winning historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to Les Misérables.
MoreLong description:
Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Camelot--love them or love to hate them, movie musicals have been a major part of all our lives. They're so glitzy and catchy that it seems impossible that they could have ever gone any other way. But the ease in which they unfold on the screen is deceptive. Dorothy's dream of finding a land "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was nearly cut, and even a film as great as The Band Wagon was, at the time, a major flop.
In Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter, award winning historian Richard Barrios explores movie musicals from those first hits, The Jazz Singer and Broadway Melody, to present-day Oscar winners Chicago and Les Misérables. History, film analysis, and a touch of backstage gossip combine to make Dangerous Rhythm a compelling look at musicals and the powerful, complex bond they forge with their audiences. Going behind the scenes, Barrios uncovers the rocky relationship between Broadway and Hollywood, the unpublicized off-camera struggles of directors, stars, and producers, and all the various ways by which some films became our most indelible cultural touchstones -- and others ended up as train wrecks.
Not content to leave any format untouched, Barrios examines animated musicals and popular music with insight and enthusiasm. Cartoons have been intimately connected with musicals since Steamboat Willie. Disney's short Silly Symphonies grew into the instant classic Snow White, which paved the way for that modern masterpiece, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut. Without movie musicals, Barrios argues, MTV would have never existed. On the flip side, without MTV we might have been spared Evita.
Informed, energetic, and humorous, Dangerous Rhythm is both an impressive piece of scholarship and a joy to read.
Barrios knows this material inside out, which allows him to step back to make often inspired observations.
Table of Contents:
A Note of Explanation
Introduction ALL THAT JAZZ
Chapter One EVERYTHING'S BEEN DONE BEFORE
Chapter Two WHERE DO THEY COME FROM (AND WHERE DO THEY GO?)
Chapter Three SEEING'S BELIEVING
Chapter Four PEOPLE From Jolson to Justin in 85 Years
Chapter Five THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
Chapter Six MUSIC MAKES ME
Chapter Seven WITH PLENTY OF MONEY
Chapter Eight I GET THE NECK OF THE CHICKEN
Chapter Nine TURN ON THE HEAT
Chapter Ten PAINTING THE CLOUDS Snow White, South Park, and Other Ways to Animate a Musical
Chapter Eleven UNDER MY SKIN Musicals and Race, Musicals and Sexuality
Chapter Twelve PUT 'EM IN A BOX
Epilog DREAM DANCING
