Great courses (Compact disc)

Title from container

Professor Messenger of Johns Hopkins University delivers lectures on the history of musicals and Broadway

"Course number 7318."

Compact discs

In two containers (19 cm)

16 lectures (45 min. each)

Unabridged

Lecturer: Professor Bill Messenger, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Disc 1.

Essence of the musical --

Disc 2.

Minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) --

Disc 3.

Evolution of the verse/chorus song --

Disc 4.

Ragtime years (c. 1890-1917) --

Disc 5.

Vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) --

Disc 6.

Tin Pan Alley --

Disc 7.

Broadway in its infancy --

Disc 8.

Revue versus the book musical --

Disc 9.

Superstars on the horizon --

Disc 10.

Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) --

Disc 11.

Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, contrasts --

Disc 12.

George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) --

Disc 13.

Rodgers and Hammerstein era (1940s) --

Disc 14.

Golden age of musical theater (1950s) --

Disc 15.

Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) --

Disc 16.

Big bucks and long runs (1970s-present)