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.
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.
Richard Barrios worked in the music and film industries before turning to film history with the award-winning A Song in the Dark and with Screened Out, which was the basis of a film series by Turner Classic Movies. He lectures extensively and appears frequently on television and in film and DVD documentaries. Born in the swamps of south Louisiana and a longtime resident of New York City, he now lives in western New Jersey, near Philadelphia
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* 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
* 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
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