Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater

Herausgeber: Ruwe, Donelle; Leve, James

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781032400525
• ISBN-10: 1032400528
• Artikelnr.: 73281310

Autorenporträt

James Leve is a Professor of Musicology at Northern Arizona University. Donelle Ruwe is Professor and Chair of English at Northern Arizona University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an Introduction
James Leve and Donelle Ruwe
2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music
Ryan Bunch
3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing:
Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks
William A. Everett
4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children's and
Family Musicals
Raymond Knapp
5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in
Oliver! and Copperfield
Marc Napolitano
6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows
(1970)
Donelle Ruwe
7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie
James Leve
8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie
Marah Gubar
9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda
the Musical
Helen Freshwater
10. Children's Musicals for Educational and Community Settings
Lauren Acton
11. Broadway Junior
Stacy Wolf
Bibliography of Scholarly Sources