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Article: The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television
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- Journal of Singing
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- November 1, 2008
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Thomas Hischak, The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Cloth, xxxiv, 923 pp., $ 39.95. ISBN 978-0-19-533533-0. www.oup.com
What is an American musical? Thomas Hischak poses the question in his preface to The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, but the reader needs to look no further than the volume's subtitle for the answer. In an opening essay that presents a whirlwind tour of the evolution of the form, Hischak underlines that it is not restricted to stage plays, but that it encompasses musicals written or adapted for film and television. From the moment Al Jolson began singing on celluloid, and with Julie ...