Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America from After the Ball to Hamilton Laurence Maslon

Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America from After the Ball to Hamilton Laurence Maslon – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190620417, 0190620412

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• ISBN 10: 0190620412
• ISBN 13: 9780190620417
• Author: Laurence Maslon

The music of Broadway is one of America’s most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms across the country.The crossroads where the music of Broadway meets popular culture is an expansive and pervasive juncture throughout most of the twentieth century–from sheet music to radio broadcasts to popular and original cast recordings–and continues to influence culture today through television, streaming, and the Internet. The original Broadway cast album–from the 78 rpm recording of Oklahoma! to the digital download of Hamilton–is one of the most successful, yet undervalued, genres in the history of popular recording. The challenge of capturing musical narrative with limited technology inspired the imagination of both the recording industry and millions of listeners: between 1949 and 1969, fifteen different original cast albums hit number one on the popular music charts, ultimately tallying more weeks at number one than all of the albums by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles combined.

Table of contents:

1. Turn Over for Act Two: Content and the Context of Broadway
2. The Jewish Population of Tennessee: Sheet Music and the Imprimatur of Broadway
3. Face the Music (and Dance): The Gramophone and the Voice of Broadway
4. The Majestic Theater of the Air: Radio and the Personality of Broadway
5. The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be FriendsAlbum Sets and the Narrative of Broadway
6. Every Home’s a First Night: The Long-Playing Record and the Commodity of Broadway
7. Songs for Swingin’ Show Fans: Hit Singles and the Catalog of Broadway
8. “And My Fair Lady Is a Terrific Show, They Say”: The Record Producer and the Blockbuster of Broadway
9. Hymn for a Sunday Evening: Television and the Mythology of Broadway
10. A Few of My Favorite Things: Movie Stars and the Soundtrack of Broadway
11. Was There Too Much of a Crowd, All Too Lush and Loud?: Pop Singles and the Adult Contemporaneity of Broadway
12. Losing My Timing This Late in My Career: The Rock Scene and the Middle of the Road for Broadway
13. “You Never Seen a Show Like This Before!”: Compact Discs and the Digitization of Broadway
14. History Has Its Eyes on You: The Internet and the Mixtape of Broadway

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