TY - ADVS AU - Messenger,Bill ED - Teaching Company. TI - Great American music: Broadway musicals SN - 159803202X (Part 1) AV - ML2054 .M47 2006 U1 - 782.14 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Chantilly, VA PB - The Teaching Company KW - Musicals KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Study and teaching KW - Music appreciation N1 - Course no. 7318; Series title on course guidebooks: The great courses : fine arts & music; The essence of the musical -- The minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) -- Evolution of the verse / chorus song -- The ragtime years (c.1890-1917) -- The vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) -- Tin Pan Alley -- Broadway in its infancy -- The revue versus the book musical -- Superstars of the horizon -- Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) -- Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern - contrasts -- George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) --Rodgers and Hammerstein era (1940s) -- Golden age of musical theater (1950s) -- Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) -- Big bucks and long runs (1970s - present) ER -