Music in American Life #: Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

Music in American Life #: Lying in the Middle
Jake Johnson
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h229 x 152mm - 192pg
5 Oct 2021 US
9780252085994
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The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater' s inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religion-imagining a better world while creating opportunities to expand what is possible in the current one. Whether it is the Oklahoma Senior Follies or a Mormon splinter group' s production of The Sound of Music, such productions give people a chance to jolt themselves out of today' s post-truth malaise and move toward a world more in line with their desires for justice, reconciliation, and community. Vibrant and strikingly original, Lying in the Middle discovers some of the most potent musical theater taking place in the hoping, beating hearts of Americans.

Accordian in the Americas, The: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco and More!
Americanaland: Where Country and Western Met Rock 'n' Roll
Banjo Roots and Branches
Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World
Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man
Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era
Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir
Blues Before Sunrise 2: Interviews from the Chicago Scene
Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago
Charles Ives's Concord: Essays after a Sonata
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America
Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures
Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy
Listening to Bob Dylan
Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Music in American Life: Cole Porter Companion
Music in American Life: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic
Music in American Life: Elocutionists, The: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word
Music in American Life: Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene
Music in American Life: Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz
Music in American Life: Making the March King: John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893
Music in American Life: Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties
Music in American Life: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic
Music in American Life: Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Music in American Life: Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Music in American Life: Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass
Music in American Life: Rethinking American Music
Music in American Life: Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music
Music in American Life: Southern Soul-Blues
Music in American Life: Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass
Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic
Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983
Queer Country
Sounds of Place, The: Music and the American Cultural Landscape
Tania Leon's Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life
Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins
Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

"With an unlikely cast of polygamists, conservative Christians, senior citizens, and aspiring stars who end up cookie cutter performers, Johnson' s polemic for and against the Broadway musical (and how all of us use it) cuts to the heart of our post-truth moment. "--Todd Decker, author of Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
Jake Johnson is an associate professor of musicology at Oklahoma City University and the author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America.

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