Raymond Knapp: 2 books
Making Light
Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures...
by Raymond Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic...