Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter

Insightful, exuberant, and witty, 'Dangerous Rhythm' offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to Les Miserables.

• | Author: Richard Barrios
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 290 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190262613
• | ISBN-13: 9780190262617