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Lying In The Middle eBook

Musical Theater And Belief At The Heart Of America

by Jake Johnson
language: english
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, September of 2021 ‧
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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.

Lying In The Middle

Musical Theater And Belief At The Heart Of America

by Jake Johnson

Property Description
ISBN: 9780252052859
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date: September of 2021
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Performing Arts
EAN: 9780252052859
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