Lying in the Middle
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Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

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Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

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About This Book

The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater's inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religion—imagining a better world while creating opportunities to expand what is possible in the current one. Whether it is the Oklahoma Senior Follies or a Mormon splinter group's production of The Sound of Music, such productions give people a chance to jolt themselves out of today's post-truth malaise and move toward a world more in line with their desires for justice, reconciliation, and community.

Vibrant and strikingly original, Lying in the Middle discovers some of the most potent musical theater taking place in the hoping, beating hearts of Americans.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780252052859
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. A Brief History of This Book
  6. 1 Stories Out of Place
  7. 2 Re-Placing the American Musical
  8. 3 Fundamentalism, Produced
  9. 4 Biblically Accurate
  10. 5 Everything Old Is New Again
  11. 6 Mezza Voce
  12. 7 The Afterlives of Truth and Musicals
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Back cover