George M. Cohan
Author: John McCabe
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces Cohan's multifaceted career in the theater and discusses his family and friends as well as contributions to Broadway.
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Mccabe G M Cohan
Author: John McCabe
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Published: 1980-03-21
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of the Broadway actor, composer, and producer who wrote the songs "Harrigan", "Yankee Doodle Boy", and "Over there."
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Author: Elizabeth T. Craft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0197550401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor George M. Cohan (1878-1942) definitively shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy and the institution of Broadway in the early twentieth century. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy" and is memorialized with a statue in Times Square. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. His songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. This book, the first on Cohan in fifty years and the first scholarly study on the subject, is not a biography but rather situates Cohan as a central figure of his day, placing his multifaceted contributions within overlapping historical and cultural contextual webs to examine his wide-ranging cultural impact. Chapters interweave discussion of his songs and shows with explorations of the roles he played in public life-entertainer, Broadway magnate, Irish American, celebrity, and, above all, emblem of patriotism. This approach offers not only a fuller understanding of his shows and career but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States"--
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Author: Stuart Murray
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780936399430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Norman Rockwell's famous series of paintings based on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four freedoms speech of 1941, including how they came to be created and their impact on the war effort.
Atlas of American Military History
Author: Stuart Murray
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1438130252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Battle of Bunker Hill to the Battle of Midway
Blind Quest
Author: Bert Tucker Jr.
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1450241700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch impressed with the scope of your story, kept me entranced, a compelling and intriguing read, ability to mingle past, present and future is a rear trait. LTG David Palmer Superintendent West Point In an era when terrorist actions have become increasingly uncontrollable, seven contemporaries travel back to the days of the early twentieth century carrying twenty-first century knowledge, technology, and experience to influence historical leaders and thus change the course of humanity. Blind Quest is an historical work of science fiction that illustrates how poorly equipped the people of 1905 were to meet emerging global challenges. This expansive adventure not only recounts the state of the world in 1905, but also of the condition of humankind through the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It places historic events and conditions in perspective as the fictional characters interact with that history and make it real to the reader. Traveling with the experience of knowing the future of ten later decades, General Charles Anderson and his six colleagues are brought face-to-face with real historical personalities of the last century. As their paths cross, the story is woven into an exciting adventure traversing the country and encountering the visionary and the tyrants of days gone by.
Music in the 20th Century (3 Vol Set)
Author: Dave DiMartino
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 2298
ISBN-13: 131746429X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an examination of the crucial formative period of Chinese attitudes toward nuclear weapons, the immediate post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki period and the Korean War. It also provides an account of US actions and attitudes during this period and China's response.
The A to Z of American Theater
Author: James Fisher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 0810868849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The period of 1880 to 1929 is the richest theater era in American history, certainly in the number of plays produced and significant artists, as well as in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism gradually seeped into American theater during the 1880s and 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. Such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S. Kaufman ushered in the golden age of American drama." "The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by modernism in Europe and by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays, music, playwrights, performers, producers, critics, architects, designers, and costumes." --Book Jacket.
Popular Music
Author: Roman Iwaschkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 1317223446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.
Singular Sensation
Author: Michael Riedel
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501166638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extraordinary story of a transformative decade on Broadway, featuring gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers—shows that changed the history of the American theater. The 1990s was a decade of profound change on Broadway. At the dawn of the nineties, the British invasion of Broadway was in full swing, as musical spectacles like Les Miserables, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera dominated the box office. But Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard soon spelled the end of this era and ushered in a new wave of American musicals, beginning with the ascendance of an unlikely show by a struggling writer who reimagined Puccini’s opera La Bohème as the smash Broadway show Rent. American musical comedy made its grand return, culminating in The Producers, while plays, always an endangered species on Broadway, staged a powerful comeback with Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. A different breed of producers rose up to challenge the grip theater owners had long held on Broadway, and corporations began to see how much money could be made from live theater. And just as Broadway had clawed its way back into the mainstream of American popular culture, the September 11 attacks struck fear into the heart of Americans who thought Times Square might be the next target. But Broadway was back in business just two days later, buoyed by talented theater people intent on bringing New Yorkers together and supporting the economics of an injured city. Michael Riedel presents the drama behind every mega-hit or shocking flop, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on.
