{"product_id":"children-childhood-and-musical-theater-9781032400525","title":"Children Childhood and Musical Theater","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children''s musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children''s authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of incr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Leve and Donelle Ruwe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Music \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Bunch \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in \u003ci\u003eMary Poppins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChitty Chitty Bang Bang\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBedknobs and Broomsticks \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam A. Everett \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Saving Mr\u003ci\u003e. [Blank]\u003c\/i\u003e: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaymond Knapp \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in \u003ci\u003eOliver! \u003c\/i\u003eand C\u003ci\u003eopperfield\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Napolitano \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in \u003ci\u003eThe Me Nobody Knows \u003c\/i\u003e(1970) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonelle Ruwe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Little Girls, Big Voices: \u003ci\u003eAnnie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Leve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Urchins, Unite: \u003ci\u003eNewsies\u003c\/i\u003e as an Antidote to \u003ci\u003eAnnie \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarah Gubar \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The \"Revolting Children\" of \u003ci\u003eMatilda the Musical \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Freshwater \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Acton \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Broadway Junior \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStacy Wolf \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography of Scholarly Sources \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019030954327,"sku":"9781032400525","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032400525.jpg?v=1750779092","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-childhood-and-musical-theater-9781032400525","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}