Music 2701A/B Lecture Notes - Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, List Of Signature Songs
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Lecture 6: the 1920s and 1930s (show boat, anything goes, pal joey) Music by jerome kern: good living as a song plugger . Lyrics by oscar hammerstein ii: fluffy style. Based on a novel by edna ferber: ferber travelled with a show boat to research her story, ferbert researched period-specific vernacular and wrote in dialect to depict sound of language. Tin pan alley musical theatre song pluggers would go there: a lot of song writers got there future here. Tells of the theatrical troupes that travelled on boats on the mississippi: stage in the middle of the boat, rich people get star power and best cabins to sleep in. Book (and show) take realistic look at class and race divisions in nineteenth century south. Black performers on the show boat w/ white people: post abolition (weren"t paid wages, not slave labor but living conditions and wages bad) What musical theatre scholars say about show boat:
