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“david savran”

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  • Highbrow/Lowdown

    Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class

    by David Savran ...
    Highbrow/Lowdown explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today. The arrival of jazz in the 1920s sparked a cultural revolution that was impossible to contain. The music affected every stratum of U.S. society and culture, confusing and challenging long-entrenched hierarchies based on class, race, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Tell it to the World

    The Broadway Musical Abroad

    by David Savran ...
    What happens when Broadway goes abroad? Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local practices and traditions. It traces especially how the musical has been indigenized in South Korea and Germany, the commercial centers for Broadway musicals in East Asia and continental Europe. Both countries ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Playwright's Voice

    American Dramatists on Memory, Writing and the Politics of Culture

    Edited by David Savran ...
    This new volume of interviews with contemporary playwrights attests to the fact the dramatic art is alive and well in America and celebrates the art and talent of fifteen of the theatre's most important artists. In extensive interviews, they discuss their work, influences and their craft and how the art form relates to our cultural heritage, as well as the state of theatre-its-meaning and purposes ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Taking It Like a Man

    White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture

    by David Savran ...
    From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Breaking the Rules

    The Wooster Group

    by David Savran ...
    Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In Their Own Words

    Contemporary American Playwrights

    by David Savran ...
    Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The American Theatre Reader

    Essays and Conversations from American Theatre magazine

    Edited by Staff of American Theatre Magazine ...
    In celebration of American Theatre’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors of the nation’s leading theater magazine have chosen their best essays and interviews to provide an intimate look at the people, plays, and events that have shaped the American theater over the past quarter-century. Over two hundred artists, critics, and theater professionals are gathered in this one-of-a-kind collection, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals)

    by Michael Patterson ...
    First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Guest List

    How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball

    by Ethan Mordden ...
    From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, the Lunts and Helen Hayes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988)

    A Stage History and a Primary and Secondary Bibliography

    by Philip C. Kolin ...
    In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Queer Art of Failure

    by Jack Halberstam ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Leonard Bernstein

    American Original

    by Burton Bernstein, Barbara Haws ...
    "Interspersed with [a] wealth of well-considered commentary are the smart and affectionate recollections of Burton Bernstein. . . . A flat-out wonderful book." — Booklist, starred reviewOne of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age twenty-five. A ... Read more

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