Taste of Broadway - Food in Musical Theater

Food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to reveal more about a setting, character, or situation. This book looks at the role of food in popular theater musicals illustrating how food relates to the broader world.

List of contents

Introduction: The First Taste
Chapter 1: Food to Set the Scene
Chapter 2: Regional Foods
Chapter 3: Food as Identity
Chapter 4: Explaining Characters and Relationships
Chapter 5: Just Trying to Put Food on the Table
Chapter 6: Food Representing Class
Chapter 7: The Way to a Man's (or Woman's) Heart
Conclusion: The Last Morsel

About the author

By Jennifer Packard

Summary

Food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to reveal more about a setting, character, or situation. This book looks at the role of food in popular theater musicals illustrating how food relates to the broader world.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Packard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2017
• EAN: 9781442267312
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-6731-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies i; Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies i
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Theme cookery books; Humanities, art, music > Music; USA, Musicals, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, COOKING / History, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Food & society, United States of America, USA, Cultural studies: food and society, Music of film and stage