2015
DOI: 10.1525/jams.2015.68.3.605
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“I'll Never Know Exactly Who Did What”: Broadway Composers as Musical Collaborators

Abstract: Though published vocal scores of Broadway musicals imply sole musical authorship the archives reveal a more complex picture. Five case studies illustrate different approaches to the compositional process in the 1940s and 1950s: Richard Rodgers, who produced fair copies in piano-vocal score for each of his songs; Cole Porter, who regularly used an amanuensis but sometimes produced fair copies; Frank Loesser, who initially used an amanuensis but later in his career produced detailed fragments of music for his ar… Show more

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“…Finally, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in musicological/new historicist and cultural studies from musical authorial and collaborative interrogation (McHugh, 2015), to diverse cultural approaches examining gender equality in the music industry (Lowes, 2021), the importance and relevance of queer culture in iconic musicals (Birkett and McHugh, 2018;Whitfield, 2020) and perspectives that seek to deconstruct male-female binary polemics (Werner, Gadir and De Boise, 2021). The growth of these diverse studies examining such a broad field in the past two decades underlines the positive development of researcher mindset in the genre, wherein dialogic interrogation is free to explore and correct historical bias across the board.…”
Section: (Repeated Mention)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in musicological/new historicist and cultural studies from musical authorial and collaborative interrogation (McHugh, 2015), to diverse cultural approaches examining gender equality in the music industry (Lowes, 2021), the importance and relevance of queer culture in iconic musicals (Birkett and McHugh, 2018;Whitfield, 2020) and perspectives that seek to deconstruct male-female binary polemics (Werner, Gadir and De Boise, 2021). The growth of these diverse studies examining such a broad field in the past two decades underlines the positive development of researcher mindset in the genre, wherein dialogic interrogation is free to explore and correct historical bias across the board.…”
Section: (Repeated Mention)mentioning
confidence: 99%