Overview
- Examines the extraordinary impact of the digital age on musical theatre
- Brings together a group of expert voices in the field to address a broad and diverse array of issues, from casting to criticism
- Examines how contemporary musical theatre makers exploit digital devices in their research and pedagogy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Creating Musicals and the Digital
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Audiences and Performers in the Digital Age
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Digital Dramaturgy, Scholarship and Criticism
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About this book
This book argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast. In the first hundred years of its existence, commercial musical theatre functioned on one basic model. However, with the advent of digital and network technologies, every musical theatre artist and professional has had to adjust to swift and unanticipated change. Due to the historically commercial nature of the musical theatre form, it offers a more potent test case to reveal the implications of this digital shift than other theatrical art forms. Rather than merely reflecting technological change, musical theatre scholarship and practice is at the forefront of the conversation about art in the digital age. This book is essential reading for musical theatre fans and scholars alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jessica Hillman-McCord is Associate Professor at SUNY Fredonia, USA. Her articles have appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, Studies in Musical Theatre and Theatre Topics, among others. Her book, Echoes of the Holocaust on the American Musical Stage, was published in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: iBroadway
Book Subtitle: Musical Theatre in the Digital Age
Editors: Jessica Hillman-McCord
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64876-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64875-0Published: 01 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87892-8Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64876-7Published: 21 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Theatre Industry, Theatre Direction and Production, Contemporary Theatre