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Joseph Peter Swain is associate professor of music at Colgate University. He received his Ph.D. in music at Harvard University in 1983 and has been nominated by the music department for a Lehman Fellowship.
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A nourishing stew spiced with the variety of "musically valuable" American musicals (e.g., Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Evita, A Chorus Line, Sweeney Todd ), this unique blend of history, criticism , and analysis is valuable for all who concern themselves with this sector of musical culture. The piano-vocal scores used as sources for musical examples will be comprehensible even to musical amateurs since the songs are often so familiar. The musical analyses use sophisticated specialized terminology; would-be composers will easily grasp it, others will learn a lot. The motivation to do so will come from Swain's fascinating arguments on how the music in these dramas carries the stories as much as the words do. A welcome addition to American music history.
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