MUS 235 - Music Theatre in America

Unique Course
This class is a survey of American musical theatre with an emphasis upon its significant and unique contributions to United States popular culture. Through audio and video recordings, slides, demonstrations & visits to live performances, the course traces the musical’s relationship to opera, to such nineteenth century popular entertainments as minstrelsy, vaudeville and burlesque as well as to contemporary popular song and dance forms.
3 semester hours