x, 380 pages : 27 cm

Covers the development of musicals, from the earliest European operetta styles of France and Germany to the modern musical of the United States and Britain

Includes index

pt. I. Continental European Operetta from Offenbach to Lehar. 1. Paris and the Rise of Offenbach. 2. Third Republic Paris. 3. The Viennese Waltz Operetta. 4. Fin de Siecle. 5. Habsburg Twilight -- pt. II. Comic Opera and Musical Comedy: Britain and America. 6. Gilbert and Sullivan and British Comic Opera. 7. Gaiety Girls. 8. The American Melting Pot. 9. America Ascendant. 10. The Musical Comes of Age -- pt. III. Continental European Round-Up. 11. The 1920s: The "Annees Folles" 12. The Troubled 1930s. 13. European National Schools -- pt. IV. The Musical Since World War II. 14. The Golden Age of the American Musical. 15. Lyricists' Musicals in the Golden Age. 16. Coleman, Kander and Ebb, Herman, and Sondheim. 17. Postwar London. 18. Towards the Twenty-First Century

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