THEATER 110

History of American Musical Theater

• Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of history of American musical: its composers, writers, and performers from musical's emergence in immigrant cultures to Broadway and Off-Broadway. With its roots in British music halls and comic opera, Viennese operetta and African American jazz, American musical theater emerged as vivid and popular art form with its own culture and identity. P/NP or letter grading.