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  title info:
    title: From Camelot to Spamalot
    sub title: musical retellings of Arthurian legend on stage and screen
  name:
    name part: Woller, Megan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "This book explores musicalizations of Arthurian legend as filtered through specific versions of the tale as told by Mark Twain, T.H. White, and Monty Python. For centuries, Arthurian legend with its tales of Camelot, romance, and chivalry has captured imaginations throughout Europe and the Americas. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, musical versions of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have abounded in the United States, shaping the legend for American audiences through song. The ever-shifting, age-old tale of King Arthur and his world is one which thrives on adaptation for its survival. New generations tell the story in their own ways, updating or enhancing the relevance for a fresh audience. Taking a case study approach, this work foregrounds the role of music in selected Arthurian adaptations, examining six stage and film musicals. It considers how musical versions in twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture interpret the legend of King Arthur, contending that music guides the audience to understand this well-known tale and its characters in new and unexpected ways. All of the productions considered include an overtly modern perspective on the legend, intruding and even commenting on the tale of King Arthur. Shifting from an idealistic utopia to a silly place, the myriad notions of Camelot offer a look at the importance of myth in American popular culture"--
  table of contents: Musical storytelling and revision in Rodgers and Hart's A Connecticut Yankee -- Bing Crosby's stardom and the depiction of legend in Paramount's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Interpretation and characterization in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot -- Naiveté and the depiction of Arthur's childhood in Disney's The Sword in the Stone -- Parody and the role of song in Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- Notions of place, legend, and Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot.
  note: Megan Woller.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King
      name part: Arthur
    topic: Legends
    topic: Drama
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King
      name part: Arthur
    topic: Legends
    topic: Songs and music
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King
      name part: Arthur
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Musical films
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Comédies musicales
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Films musicaux
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
  subject:
    topic: Genres & Styles
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC
  subject:
    topic: "BODY
  subject:
    topic: Musical films
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
  classification: ML2054 .W67 2021
  classification: 782.1/4
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    title info:
      title: From Camelot to Spamalot
    name:
      name part: Woller, Megan.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
    identifier: (DLC) 2020042108
    identifier: (OCoLC)1200027575
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  identifier: 9780197511060
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  identifier: 9780197511046
  identifier: 019751104X
  identifier: 9780197511053
  identifier: 9780197511022
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  identifier: 2020042109
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200914
    record change date: 20260319182920.8
    record identifier: in00005719156
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng