{"product_id":"approaches-to-the-american-musical-paperback","title":"Approaches To The American Musical - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Lawson-Peebles\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen Banfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eAnn-Charlotte Hanes Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up \u003cem\u003eApproaches to the American Musical\u003c\/em\u003e take a different view of the form, going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lawson-Peebles\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Exeter.His research field is transatlantic cultural relations, from pre-Columbian times until the present. He has published three books on American environmental history: a monograph, Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America (1988), and two collections of original essays co-edited with Professor Mick Gidley (now of Leeds University), Downloads of American Landscapes (1989) and Modern American Landscapes (1995). He has also published essays on, amongst others, George Washington, Susannah Rowson, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry George, and William Carlos Williams.His interests include American performance arts, and he has published an introductory essay on the subject, an article on the impact of the Second World War on Hollywood versions of English novels, and an edited collection of original essays, Approaches to the American Musical (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9.01 x 5.73 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130027380871,"sku":"9780859894050","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/711519f6c05c8cd4e7ebe8fceb0733ed.webp?v=1732607678","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/approaches-to-the-american-musical-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}