scholarly journals La representación de la inmigración latina en el musical estadounidense: West Side Story e In The Heights

Author(s):  
Virginia E. Higueras Rodríguez ◽  

In a country founded by European emigrants, where the migratory flux has never stopped since the first settlers arrived in the 17th Century, the immigration coming from far beyond Río Grande has always been considered as invading. Through musicals like West Side Story (1957) and In the Heights (2007), we will analyze the change of paradigm of the Latino immigration as portrait in the American musical.

1981 ◽  
Vol 36 (7-8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Weber
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Author(s):  
Ben Winters

This chapter examines historical presentational practices of sound film and, specifically, the extra music added to roadshow versions of films between the 1930s and 1960s—including Gone with the Wind, West Side Story, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It argues that such added music—which included overtures, intermission, entr’acte, and exit music—when combined with controlled theatrical lighting and use of the curtain, might have prompted a number of different cinematic listening experiences among audiences. It suggests that an understanding of these historical presentational practices might call into question comfortable assumptions about the nature of sound-film ontology and the relationship between cinema as “Text” and cinema as “Event”—issues that resonate with the discourse surrounding historically informed performance (HIP) practice in musicology.


On Sondheim ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Ethan Mordden
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Dearest Lenny ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 56-60
Author(s):  
Mari Yoshihara

With the arrival of Harry Kraut, Leonard Bernstein’s company Amberson entered a new phase of corporate enterprises that extended the maestro’s reach even further across the globe. Ironically, the enormous commercial success of West Side Story, the most American of Bernstein’s works, began to cause problems with some stakeholders, and Bernstein began to gradually pivot to the European market for publishing, recording, and films and videos. Bernstein joined the roster of the recording artists of Deutsche Grammophon upon the end of the contract with Columbia Records. The pivot exemplified the changes in the American music industry in the 1970s which made it increasingly challenging even for a musician of Bernstein’s caliber to conduct business in a way that was true to his artistic goals, economically sustainable, and culturally meaningful to a wide audience.


2017 ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Loïc Wacquant
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