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Musical Theatre in the Digital Age

Jessica Hillman-McCord

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319648767
• Categoría: Ciencias sociales
• Categoría: Estudios de medios

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.

Índice

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1 Musical Theatre in the Digital Age
• Part I Creating Musicals and the Digital
• Chapter 2 Connection in an Isolating Age: Looking Back on Twenty Years of Engaging Audiences and Marketing Musical Theatre Online
• Chapter 3 The Digital-Age Musical: SightingSiting Musicals Defined by High-Tech Content, Themes, and Memes
• Chapter 4 Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Technology and Screen-to-Stage Musicals
• Part II Audiences and Performers in the Digital Age
• Chapter 5 Let’s Misbehave: Cell Phone Technology and Audience Behaviors
• Chapter 6 Digital Fandom: Hamilton and the Participatory Spectator
• Chapter 7 No-Object Fandom: Smash-ing Kickstarter and Bringing Bombshell to the Stage
• Chapter 8 “You Can’t Stop the Tweet”: Social Media and Networks of Participation in the Live Television Musical
• Chapter 9 Digital Technology, Social Media, and Casting for the Musical Theatre Stage
• Chapter 10 Keeping the Celebrity Flame Flickering: Reality Television Celebrities on Broadway and Fan Interaction Through Digital Media
• Part III Digital Dramaturgy, Scholarship and Criticism
• Chapter 11 The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea: Digital Musical Theatre Research
• Chapter 12 Recanonizing “American” Sound and Reinventing the Broadway Song Machine: Digital Musicology Futures of Broadway Musicals
• Chapter 13 Rise Again Digitally: Musical Revivals and Digital Dramaturgy on Broadway
• Chapter 14 The Ever-Evolving World of Twenty-First Century Musical Theatre Criticism
• Chapter 15 Looking Backward, Looking Forward: An Afterword
• Index